Organism
Cephalopods
TL;DR
Marine mollusks including octopuses and squids that independently evolved camera-type eyes convergent with vertebrate eyes.
Marine mollusks including octopuses and squids that independently evolved camera-type eyes convergent with vertebrate eyes. Their common ancestor with vertebrates lived over 600 million years ago and likely had only simple light-sensitive cells. The similarity arose through convergent evolution: the physics of image formation constrain possible solutions, so natural selection discovered the same camera eye design repeatedly.