Illustration of Haikouichthys, a fish from the Cambrian period, with a second pair of eyes suggested by fossil evidence. Image courtesy of Xiangtong Lei, Sihang Zhang
Joel Kontinen
Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, appear to show that these animals had two pairs of eyes
Over half a
billion years ago, the world’s oldest known vertebrates seem to have sported an
extra set of eyes – and humans may still carry a remnant of this ancient
evolutionary innovation.
But this isn’t a story of evolutionary innovation. It is a
story of Darwinian speculation. And fossils tell the story that evolutionists tend
to like.
Extraordinary
fossils of two species of jawless fish called myllokunmingids were found
by Peiyun Cong at Yunnan University in China,
and his colleagues between
2019 and 2024, on the banks of Dianchi Lake in south-west China.
Source:
James Woodford 2026
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