Before you listen, just take a moment to think about how sight works: Light comes out of the sun, bounces off of a tree (or whatever), goes inside of your head, and hits some nerves which send signals to your brain which turns that into an image of a tree (or whatever)... I wouldn't believe it if I weren't looking at this screen and typing these words right now!
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[Trivia Question]
Colossal squid eye size
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/largest-eye-world-giant-squid
[Fact Off]
Climbing vine can mimic plastic plant leaves
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02229-8
Ogre-faced spider eye membrane regeneration
https://www.jstor.org/stable/77314
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/how-spiders-see-the-world/
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/Creatures/MISC/SPIDERS/ogre_faced_spider_Deinopis_spinosa.htm
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=116061
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human visible spectrum & eye evolution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093619/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218210100.htm
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004884
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-213
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2995
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2002/may/30/medicalscience.research
[Butt One More Thing]
Tadpole butt eye transplant