Ancient discovery puts world’s scientific eyes on Kangaroo Island :

ABC Adelaide - Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that a 515 million year old fossilised compound eye has been discovered in rocks from an archaeology dig on Kangaroo Island. Archeologists are calling it one of the greatest fossils finds in modern history.”

Believed to come from the Cambrian era, the fossil is from 540 to 510 million years ago, when the ‘first real explosion of life’ evolved. The fossil is the first of its kind from the Cambrian period to be discovered in the world. With over 3000 lenses lined up around the larger ones, it is expected that the creature it belonged to could see in near-dark conditions. “This is a creature which probably had quite good vision for a marine creature.”

(Via ABC Adelaide.)