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The trilobite had the same compound eye structure as that of the present-day fly,
shown above. Some species of trilobite had thousands of lenses in their eyes.
Every lens perceived a separate image of the region it focused on. The greater the
number of lenses, the greater the resolution of the image.
These perfect eyes, dating back half a billion years, are a marvel of flawless crea-
tion.

lenses of course meant better vision.
Richard Fortey, an evolutionist paleontologist from London’s
Natural History Museum, comments on the extraordinary number
of lenses possessed by some trilobites:
One of the most difficult jobs I ever attempted was to count the num-
ber of lenses in a large trilobite eye. I took several photographs of the
eye from the different angles and then made enormous prints magni-
fied large enough to see individual lenses. I started counting as one
might, “One, two, three, four. . . ” and so on, to a hundred or two. The
trouble was that you had only to look away for an instant, or sneeze,
to forget exactly where you were, so it was back again to “One, two,
three...” ... I got to a total of more than three thousand before I vowed
that, in future, I would simply estimate the number of lenses in a bit

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