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We’ve got our eyes on you 👀

Using 3D imaging and computational modeling, researchers from The University of Western Australia, the UWA Oceans Institute, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and MBARI compared the structure and function of the eyes of hyperiid amphipods, shrimp-like crustaceans that dwell in the dim waters of the ocean’s twilight zone. 

Hyperia has evolved eyes that keep watch on a wide field of view but can only visualize objects nearby. Phronima—commonly known as the barrel amphipod—can see well into the distance, but at the cost of a very narrow field of view. Phronima has solved this problem by evolving a second pair of eyes for wide, but poor, peripheral vision. 

Learn more about the barrel amphipod in our Animals of the Deep gallery.

Images courtesy of MBARI Adjunct Karen Osborn, Smithsonian Institution

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Me doin dishes

Orn and bungle b have a conversation

Yummy ham mines

Abandoned mine in Chewton, Australia.

Bear was not a huge fan of her daughter Pear when the two first met. maternal instinct has been bred out of domestic Coturnix quail, so Bear was quite suspicious of this mysterious peeping bundle!

when Pear grew up (4 weeks later) the two eventually found some common ground in their shared attributes of roundness and brownness and would spend most of their time together. Pear ended up larger than her mother but inherited her gentle disposition and love of sitting around staring blankly into space