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| Topic Started: Feb 15 2010, 02:41 PM (846 Views) | |
| Venatosaurus | Feb 15 2010, 02:41 PM Post #1 |
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HAUS OF SPEC
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Now, it should be common knowledge that the "Third Eye" truly exists, the Parietal eye. It is found in several Lizards, Frogs, Lampreys, some species of Fish and Sharks, salamanders, some arthropods (though they are analogolous to the Parietal Eye), with the most developed, found in the Tuatara, with with small lens and retina. Now what if natural selection favored the 'third-eye' , and early Vertebrates developed truly complex third eyes. How would this affect evolution and extinction, and what could today look like...I have a twisted vision, but what do you think ?! Go on and speculate ! |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 15 2010, 02:45 PM Post #2 |
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By third eye, do you mean like a Vitamin C collector (like that of the tuatara) or a true third eye that you can see out of? |
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| sam999 | Feb 15 2010, 02:46 PM Post #3 |
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I asume he means a eye that can be used almost as well as the other two but I'm not sure... |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 15 2010, 02:49 PM Post #4 |
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Alright. And Venatosaurus: would the third eye be present in only vertebrates or in all animals with eyes? |
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| Holben | Feb 15 2010, 03:10 PM Post #5 |
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Scorpions have four eyes. Two for detecting light concentration which can't be seen, and the two main ones. But can you give a reason why it should become prevalent? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Venatosaurus | Feb 15 2010, 05:53 PM Post #6 |
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A third eye that is just as capable as the two others, and it would just be in vertebrates. |
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| ATEK Azul | Feb 15 2010, 07:37 PM Post #7 |
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I have never heard of a real 3rd eye so what are you talking about? Also if Vertebrates developed 3 eyes it would drasticly change Muscle and skull structures aswell as the brains. |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 15 2010, 07:53 PM Post #8 |
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Alright. Thanks for answering. Atek: the third eye in the tuataras isn't much to look at. In fact, there's nothing to look at. It just aids in vitamin C absorption. But you're right. Massive cranial and muscular change would be in order. How would these eyes even be arranged? In a triangle or in a row? |
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| ATEK Azul | Feb 15 2010, 08:18 PM Post #9 |
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Thanks for the answere. Also I think the 3rd eye would move toward the Top or back of the head in Herbivores and then be inbetween the other 2 eyes on Predators though it might also be tilted up since the nasal passage is in the way of it's formation. Also the changes in the head of these organisms might change the muscular structure of the shoulders, front limbs and neck. |
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| colddigger | Feb 15 2010, 09:36 PM Post #10 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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vitamin C or D? |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 15 2010, 11:46 PM Post #11 |
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Whichever you get from the sun. I can't remember which. |
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| empusa | Feb 16 2010, 04:35 AM Post #12 |
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vitamin D, lovely stuff. Need to absorb some sunlight now... |
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| Holben | Feb 16 2010, 10:53 AM Post #13 |
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Vitamins D and K. Vitamin C in all mammals 'cept humans and guinea pigs. The entire synapsid/anapdsid/diapsid thing would be different, as the muscle-anchoring holes would have to move. A third optical nerve would force the olfactory epithelium down, making noses lower in the snout and probably making skulls taller. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| colddigger | Feb 16 2010, 11:39 PM Post #14 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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likely would move brains back further... so a taller, longer skull. |
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| Holben | Feb 17 2010, 11:40 AM Post #15 |
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In fact, the cortical and olfactory regions would have to be moved completely. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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