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This Fossilized Creature Has 3 Eyes, but Everything Else Looks Familiar

This Fossilized Creature Has 3 Eyes, but Everything Else Looks Familiar

More than 500 million years before Matt Groening and “The Simpsons” introduced us to Blinky, a mutated fish with an extra eye swimming through Springfield’s Old Fishin’ Hole, a three-eyed predator chased prey through seas of the Cambrian Period. Once it caught its quarry, a pair of spine-covered grasping claws and a circular mouth covered in teeth would finish the …

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