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Brittle Star Features Calcite Lenses

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Daniel S. Burgess

It has five arms and thousands of eyes, wears an armored plate and has been around for 500 million years. No, it's not a monster from a 1950s grade-Z sci-fi movie, but the brittle star Ophiocoma wendtii. And it may lead researchers to develop new and better microlens arrays for photonics applications. Researchers have discovered a brittle star that has adapted its armored plates into a visual system. Alexei Tkachenko and Joanna Aizenberg of Bell Labs display specimens of the marine organism. Photos courtesy of Lucent Technologies Inc. A research team from Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell...Read full article

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