[julienchastang]

The photography of the bird eyes in the article is stunning especially the 3x3 grid.

[hombre_fatal]

Yeah, they help remind me that eyes are strange biological sensors rather than the cartoonish familiar things I see daily. Kind of like when you take acid and realize how weird you look. Or your cat’s basically a mouth with legs.

[qsera]

> eyes are strange biological sensors

I was always amazed at the idea of a Radar, how it can detect objects at large distances by using reflected EM radiation, then I remember that eyes are just a RADAR and I am 10x amazed by the fact....

[drcongo]

Someone on the Infinite Monkey Cage (I think) described almost all animals as just a tube - stuff goes in one end, different stuff comes out the other end.

[chasil]

A name for this is the "ailiamentary canal," which redirects here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract

[HexPhantom]

Once you look closely, theiliar animal face kind of disappears and you're just staring at alien biological hardware

[Razengan]

Wait till you see cephalopod eyes!

[SoftTalker]

IIRC cephalopods branched off very early in the evolutionary chain. They are almost like aliens.

[HexPhantom]

And the photography almost steals the show

[dhosek]

Those bottom-row pictures were kind of freaky.