Thursday, August 30, 2012

Primitive Sea Mollusc Has Eyes of Rock

Primitive Sea Mollusc Has Eyes of Rock :O

That’s a tiny sea mollusk called a chiton, that lives about 50 feet below the water’s surface. It’s a pretty darned weird animal, but scientists have found something that makes it even more remarkable: it has eyes made of rocks. The team realized in a lab experiment that the animal’s lenses were made of aragonite (calcium carbonate), rather than proteins like other biological lenses

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