Several years ago I was out paddling when I realized I could see plankton with my naked eye. I don’t know quite how it happened at that exact moment, but it did. Maybe the conditions were just ...

A single-celled blob of marine plankton has evolved a miniature multi-cellular eye similar to that of humans, scientists have discovered. Friday, 15 November 2024 Newsletters ...

The team believes that it is possible the eye is used to detect them. The unexpected complexity of the single-cell dinoflagellates doesn’t stop here. “Amazingly, this species doesn’t just have an ‘eye ...

Due to its complicated nature, the eye was initially mistaken for one of the plankton's consumed prey when it was first seen and described by marine biologists in the 1920s. It's still unclear how ...