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Tiny jellyfish has proto-eye linked to stingers

The first steps in the evolution of an eye may be evident in the hydra’s stinging tentacles, say scientists who have discovered that the tentacles are light sensitive and operate in fundamentally the same way as the eyes in animals. The findings, in the journal BMC Biology, indicate that even in the absence of complex […]

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