Cones & Rods Fossilized In Ancient Fish Eyes ( Upper Carboniferous, Kansas )

[Oxytropidoceras]

Fossils Suggest Color Vision Is 300 Million Years Old

by Charles Chio, LiveScience, December 23, 2104,

http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/fossils-suggest-color-vision-is-300-million-years-old-141223.htm

Cones & Rods Fossilized in Ancient Fish Eyes,

What they Tell Us About the View from the Past

Brian Wu, ThenScience Times, Dec. 25, 2014

http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/2179/20141225/cones-rods-fossilized-in-ancient-fish-eyes-what-they-tell-us-about-the-view-from-the-past.htm

Tanaka, G., A. R. Parker, Y. Hasegawa, D. J.

Siveter, R. Yamamoto, K. Miyashita, Y.

Takahashi, S. Ito, K. Wakamatsu, T. Mukuda,

M. Matsuura, K. Tomikawa, M. Furutani,

K. Suzuki, and H. Maeda, 2014, Mineralized

rods and cones suggest colour vision in a 300 

Myr-old fossil fish. Nature Communications.

vol. 5, Article number: 5920, doi:10.1038/ncomms6920

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141223/ncomms6920/full/ncomms6920.html

Yours,

Paul H.

[Shellseeker]

Thanks Paul. Very interesting. I am frequently amazed as what can be preserved by over millions (and hundreds of millions) of years.

Curious that a fish can see in color. I believed that animals (such as dogs) do not....