[knarf]

300 million ... uh huh.

[microgood]

Scientists had thought that modern eyes had developed hundreds of millions of years ago. Now, they have definitive proof.

Obviously not written by a scientist.

[bunkerhill7]

In fossilized fish eye, rods and cones preserved for 300 million years have been found in milky white Bok Choy Fish Head Tofu Soup

[Sacajaweau]

Ohhhhhhhhhh....I’m so excited.

[Caipirabob]

300 million years old...give or take 300 million years.

[Lake Living]

Yes, amazing, an eye is an eye is an eye - and was never anything else.

[DocRock]

Huh, wonder how those same 300 million year old rods and cones ended up in my 50 year old head and why they haven’t evolved to zoom in or macro and have night vision and thermal.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Cool find. I love this stuff. Two clicks and the actual paper pops up. The summary:

"Vision, which consists of an optical system, receptors and image-processing capacity, has existed for at least 520 Myr. Except for the optical system, as in the calcified lenses of trilobite and ostracod arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record, because the soft tissue of the eye and the brain decay rapidly after death, such as within 64 days and 11 days, respectively. The Upper Carboniferous Hamilton Formation (300 Myr) in Kansas, USA, yields exceptionally well-preserved animal fossils in an estuarine depositional setting. Here we show that the original colour, shape and putative presence of eumelanin have been preserved in the acanthodii fish Acanthodes bridgei. We also report on the tissues of its eye, which provides the first record of mineralized rods and cones in a fossil and indicates that this 300 Myr-old fish likely possessed colour vision."

It was found in layers of the earth already carefully dated. I understand a large group of people are convinced the earth is young. Wasn't it some dude in the 1800's who took a bible and added up Genesis people lifetimes that came up with the young earth date? Personally, I'm convinced God created the universe including evolution. Evolution is one of God's cool gifts. Pretty sure the pope just said it's not incompatible with Catholic Doctrine. Something along those lines. I'm no expert in religeon. Pretty good at science though, and believe in God and evolution.

[vpintheak]

Yeah, I don’t think so.

[Altariel]

You mean they just now found the April Fool’s gag from 1215—the-one-that-I-know-nothing-about-and-wasn’t-involved-in?