That suggests compound eyes remain relatively unchanged in more than 500 million years. (sciencemag.org)
A team of researchers, among them a zoologist from the University of Cologne, has succeeded in reconstructing a 160 million year old compound eye of a fossil crustacean found in southeastern France visible. (sciencedaily.com)
«We think that during the Cambrian Period, more than 500 million years ago, ancient arthropods had two big compound eyes somewhat similar to modern fruit flies,» says Buschbeck. (sciencedaily.com)