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The ogre-faced spider, *Deinopis spinosa*, is a large North American spider notable for its exceptionally large eyes adapted for low-light vision. This species employs a unique hunting strategy: it constructs and launches silk nets to capture flying insects. Primarily found in the Americas, it's of...

Carolinites is a genus of Ordovician trilobite characterized by very large compound eyes that provided a broad field of vision. Its remains occur in geographically widespread marine deposits, a distribution commonly interpreted as evidence that it lived in the open water column rather than remaining...

Ophthalmosaurus icenicus was a marine reptile belonging to the ichthyosaurs that lived during the Late Jurassic and is known from fossils found in England. Its skull contained exceptionally large eye sockets and prominent sclerotic rings, structures that supported the eyes and indicate strong adapta...

Greeneyes (family Chlorophthalmidae) are a family of deep-sea marine fishes characterized by their distinctive luminous green eyes, which are adaptations for detecting light in the dark depths of the ocean where they reside. These benthic fish typically live on continental slopes and seamounts at de...

Dianops is an extinct genus of trilobite belonging to the order Phacopida that lived during the Devonian period in what is now North America. This arthropod is particularly distinguished by its complete lack of eyes, a trait resulting from secondary loss within an evolutionary lineage that originall...

The big-eyed sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai) is a species of deep-water shark belonging to the family Hexanchidae. As its common name suggests, it is distinguished by having six gill slits (most sharks have five) and notably large eyes adapted for the low-light conditions of its deep-water habit...

Telephina is a genus of trilobites from the Ordovician Period, placed within the order Cyclopygida. Its members had large compound eyes and a relatively streamlined body, anatomical traits commonly interpreted as adaptations to life in the open water rather than continuous movement across the seaflo...

An ornithomimid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada; notable for proportionally large eye sockets suggesting enhanced vision compared with other ornithomimosaurs.

Remopleurides is an extinct genus of Ordovician trilobites in the family Remopleurididae. It is distinguished by unusually large, curved eyes that extend along much of the cephalon, giving the animal a broad field of view; the cephalon and pygidium also show specialized proportions within the group....

Pterygometopus is a genus of trilobites in the family Pterygometopidae, known from Ordovician and Silurian fossil strata. Its cephalon is distinguished by broad lateral expansions of the fixigenae, the fixed cheek regions beside the glabella. Fossils attributed to the genus are especially associated...

Ordovician trilobite known from Bohemian and broader European strata, a robust-bodied form assigned to trinucleoid or related groups and recognized by its ornamented cephalic shield.

The largeeye conger is a marine conger eel in the family Congridae. It is distinguished by eyes that are proportionally large in relation to the head and body, a feature associated with visual activity in dim deep-water conditions. The species is bathydemersal, meaning it lives near the bottom in de...