Archive for December 25th, 2014

fossil fish with rod and cones

Scientists have discovered a fossilized fish so well preserved that the rods and cones in its 300-million-year-old eyeballs are still visible under a scanning electron microscope.lRelated New record: Ethereal deep-sea fish lives 5 miles underwater It is the first time that fossilized photoreceptors from a vertebrate eye have ever been found, according to a paper […]