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Large eyeballs in diving ichthyosaurs

The huge eyes of these extinct reptiles may have been useful deep in the ocean.

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Figure 2: Logarithmic plot of eyeball diameter against body length.

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Motani, R., Rothschild, B. & Wahl, W. Large eyeballs in diving ichthyosaurs. Nature 402, 747 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/45435

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