Here’s the relevant Nature article about specimens from the early vertebrate genera Haikouichthys and Myllokunmingia (and the corresponding Nature news article).

Full preprint published on ResearchGate. Credit for the image is persistently given to Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang, the first two authors listed on the paper.

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Ay ay ay ay ay!

I’m on the fence whether it’s ai generated or not

I wonder how it feels about anglerfish

They already look cute - then you look closely and they’re extra cute

Edit: traumatized but still cute

. * surprised vertebrate face *

More eyes = more better

Just try to fathom what they were seeing, what they were used to…