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Critters

Then how about those eyes? Each huge compound eye has as many as 30,000 lenses giving almost a full 360° view of the world.  Near standard elsewhere in the animal kingdom, di, tri and even tetra-chromatic vision is not enough for dragonfly.  Instead, with an evolutionary history as long as this, this dragonfly has between 11 and 30 independent channels for conveying colour information in its eye.   Psychedelic.

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