If 2 eyes are good, 4 were even better for this lizard species

by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Apr 03, 2018 2 minutes

Here's a sight for four eyes. Scientists say they've found evidence of a fourth eye in the fossil skulls of extinct monitor lizards - an ocular abundance found in no other known jawed vertebrate.

The discovery, published in the journal Current Biology, offers scientists a strange bloom on the vertebrate evolutionary tree.