Larger and Specifically Arranged Aragonite Crystals Enable Vision the Chiton to See (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Larger and Specifically Arranged Aragonite Crystals Enable Vision the Chiton to See

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Aragonite crystals in the chiton's eyes are arranged into lenses that can collect light and focus it so that complete images of close objects such as predatory fish are formed and processed.

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Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

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