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The photography of the bird eyes in the article is stunning especially the 3x3 grid.
by julienchastang 5mo ago
The photography of the bird eyes in the article is stunning especially the 3x3 grid.
- hombre_fatal 5mo agoYeah, they help remind me that eyes are strange biological sensors rather than the cartoonish familiar things I see daily. Kind of like when you take acid and realize how weird you look. Or your cat’s basically a mouth with legs.
- Razengan 5mo agoWait till you see cephalopod eyes!
- SoftTalker 5mo agoIIRC cephalopods branched off very early in the evolutionary chain. They are almost like aliens.
- HexPhantom 5mo agoOnce you look closely, theiliar animal face kind of disappears and you're just staring at alien biological hardware
- qsera 5mo ago> eyes are strange biological sensors I was always amazed at the idea of a Radar, how it can detect objects at large distances by using reflected EM radiation, then I remember that eyes are just a RADAR and I am 10x amazed by the fact....
- drcongo 5mo agoSomeone on the Infinite Monkey Cage (I think) described almost all animals as just a tube - stuff goes in one end, different stuff comes out the other end.
- chasil 5mo agoA name for this is the "ailiamentary canal," which redirects here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract
- dhosek 5mo agoThose bottom-row pictures were kind of freaky.
- HexPhantom 5mo agoAnd the photography almost steals the show