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Large eyeballs in diving ichthyosaurs

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The huge eyes of these extinct reptiles may have been useful deep in the ocean.

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Figure 2: Logarithmic plot of eyeball diameter against body length.

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  1. Ryosuke Motani

    Present address: Department of Paleobiology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, Canada

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  1. University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA

    Ryosuke Motani

  2. The Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown, 44512, Ohio, USA

    Bruce M. Rothschild

  3. Tate Geological Museum, Casper, 82601, Wyoming, USA

    William Wahl Jr

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  1. Ryosuke Motani
  2. Bruce M. Rothschild
  3. William Wahl Jr

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