Compound eyes: The visual apparatus of today's horseshoe crabs goes back 400 million years
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
The eyes of the extinct sea scorpion Jaekelopterus rhenaniae have the same structure as the eyes of modern horseshoe crabs (Limulidae). The compound eyes of the giant predator exhibited lens cylinders and concentrically organized sensory cells enclosing the end of a highly specialized cell.