#vestigialorgans — Public Fediverse posts
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Living species of #DaddyLonglegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos https://phys.org/news/2024-02-species-daddy-longlegs-additional-underdeveloped.html
#VestigialOrgans alter #fossil placements in an ancient group of terrestrial #chelicerates https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00153-2
"While a fossilized specimen of a more ancient version of the #arachnid found in 2014 had an additional set of lateral eyes on the side of the head, the new study is the first to show evidence of more than one eye set in a living daddy longlegs species."