Scientists at UCSB discover 600 million-year-old origins of vision

Friday, March 19, 2010 - 08:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a discovery in understanding the origins of human vision. The finding is published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British journal of biology...

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