Contact: Crispin Savage
crispin.savage@samuseum.sa.gov.au
61-434-603-175
University of Adelaide
Caption: A half-billion-year-old fossil compound eye, showing exquisite detail of the visual surface (the individual lenses can be seen as darker spots).
Credit: Photo by John Paterson (University of New England).
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