There is considerable interest in understanding how vision and image-forming eyes evolved, and scientists tend to take it for granted that most vertebrates have two eyes. Writing in Nature, Lei et al.

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In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.