Cretaceous-Period Lacewing Larvae Had Sophisticated Eyes

Cretaceous-Period Lacewing Larvae Had Sophisticated Eyes
Lacewing larvae from 100-million-year-old Kachin amber. Image credit: Haug et al., doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.13509.

Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar.

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 Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar.
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