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Four-eyed Cambrian fish fossils hint at origins of vertebrate pineal complex

  • January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Four-eyed Cambrian fish fossils hint at origins of vertebrate pineal complex
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old fossils, which appears to have the same features of other fossilized eyes, and may be linked to the pineal complex in modern vertebrates.

Originally published at Phys.org

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