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#vertebrate — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vertebrate, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Palaeonavix @[email protected] ·

    the Meg (oil on illustration board, 2014)

    #megalodon #greatwhite #shark #fossils #giantfish #illustration #art #science #research #artandscience #Paläontologie #sea #vertebrate

    #megalodon #greatwhite #shark #fossils #giantfish #illustration
  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