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  1. Ireland @[email protected] ·

    europesays.com/ie/586220/ Ancient Chinese lord buried with bells meant to silence ancestral war rituals #ancestor #ancestors #AncestralWar #AncientChina #battle #bells #Burial #BurialRitual #CambridgeUniversityPress #China #Chinese #ChinglongTse #ChuState #Éire #enemies #fight #IE #InstituteOfArchaeology #Ireland #lord #LordQiu #Protection #ritual #rituals #Royalty #Science #scmp #silence #tomb #UNIVERSITYCOLLEGELONDON #war #Zeng #ZhouDynasty

    #zhoudynasty #zeng #war #universitycollegelondon #tomb #silence
  2. Stefan F. Wirth @[email protected] ·

    RE: mastodon.social/@sflorg/116131

    Eyes, as light-sensing organs of the #lens #eye type, have #evolved independently multiple times in the animal kingdom. But what did a representative of the early #vertebrate lineage look like? According to G. Kafetzis et al. (2026), a worm-like #ancestor possessed #medianeyes bring #homologous to the modern #pinealgland of the #brain. Published in #CurrentBiology. #evolution

    © this text #StefanFWirth March 2026

    #Reference
    G. Kafetzis et al. (2026),
    doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.

    #lens #eye #evolved #vertebrate #ancestor #medianeyes