Some trilobites grew their own eyeshades

Trilobites strolled the seafloor about 380 million years ago. A thumb-size fossil that preserves the eye structure of one of these multilegged creatures indicates that at least some species were active during the daytime, a lifestyle that scientists previously had only suspected.

EYES SEE YOU. The view from behind Erbenochile erbeni clearly shows the brim on each of the trilobite’s compound eyes (arrows).