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From Fins to Wings
NOVEMBER 2006
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Shark: Sphyrna tiburo; Sunfish: Mola lanceolata; photographed at North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
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Bonnethead and Sharptail Mola
Photograph by Rosamond Purcell
The complex "camera-type" eye found in vertebrates from a shark and an ocean sunfish to birds and humans evolved from the same basic light-catching device.
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