What Scallops’ Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision
2019年5月6日 · A new study published in Current Biology reveals that scallop eyes have pupils that dilate and contract in response to light, making them far more dynamic than previously believed.
The Many Eyes Of Scallops - NPR
2017年12月3日 · The scallop, it turns out, has a complex ocular system arrayed across the front of its shell - teeny-tiny eyeballs perched at the end of thread-like tentacles. Each eye features two retinas and...
Scallops’ amazing eyes use millions of tiny, square crystals to see
2017年11月30日 · Each of a scallop’s eyes — it has up to 200 of them, each about a millimeter in diameter — contains millions of perfectly square, flat crystals that build up into a mirrored mosaic, new...
Scallops Have Eyes, and Each One Has a Living Mirror - The Atlantic
2017年11月30日 · For millions of years, scallops have been gazing at the world using dozens of eyes, each of which has a segmented mirror that’s uncannily similar to those in our grandest telescopes. And ...
What Scallops’ Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of …
2019年5月6日 · Scallop eyes, which function similar to telescopes, are even more complex than scientists previously knew. May 06, 2019.
Scallop genome reveals molecular adaptations to semi-sessile ... - Nature
2017年11月23日 · Scallops possess a large number of sophisticated non-cephalic eyes along the edge of their mantle (Fig. 3a) and thus are thought to have the best vision system among bivalve molluscs 44.
The Scallop Sees With Space-Age Eyes — Hundreds of Them
2017年11月30日 · The new research suggests that scallop eyes are more akin to another kind of technology: a reflector telescope of the sort first invented by Newton. Today, astronomers build gigantic...
Understanding How Scallops View the World - AIP.ORG
2017年11月30日 · The team studied the eyes of Pecten maximus, or the king scallop, a species that lives at depths of around 20 meters in the Atlantic Ocean, primarily off the European coast. It has dozens of tiny eyes, each about a millimeter wide, …
Do scallops have eyes? | Natural History Museum - YouTube
Did you know that scallops have loads of eyes? At a glance you may not see them because they're tiny.Scallop eyes are also some of the strangest eyes in the ...
Hubble in a bubble: Scallop eyes act just like tiny telescopes
2017年11月30日 · But when light comes in at an angle, it hits the lower retina, enhancing the scallop's peripheral vision in dim light, they report today in Science. They also hypothesize just how these creatures make sense of images from 200 different eyes at once: a process in the scallop's "brain" that combines them all into a single, cohesive image.