The first eyes appeared about 541 million years ago in a group of now extinct animals called trilobites. This happened at the very beginning of the Cambrian period when complex multicellular life really took off. Trilobites' eyes were compound, similar to those of modern insects image

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The first eyes appeared about 541 million years ago in a group of now extinct animals called trilobites. This happened at the very beginning of the Cambrian period when complex multicellular life really took off. Trilobites' eyes were compound, similar to those of modern insects image

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