Unlike the camera-style eyes of vertebrates, hydrozoan ocelli lack lenses and cannot form images (so they cannot detect you while happily swimming in the ocean, despite what your phobia might induce ...

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They have two large red eyes on the sides of the head, three small, jewellike eyes called ocelli in the center, and gossamer wings. In a few hours, their bodies harden and darken, and they fly up to ...

They shed their nymphal skin, emerging soft, vulnerable and pale yellow. They have two large red eyes on the sides of the head, three small, jewellike eyes called ocelli in the center, and gossamer ...

They have two large red eyes on the sides of the head, three small, jewel-like eyes called ocelli in the center, and gossamer wings. In a few hours, their bodies harden and darken, and they fly up ...

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Once they find footing, they begin the molting process. They shed their nymphal skin, emerging soft, vulnerable and pale yellow. They have two large red eyes on the sides of the head, three small, ...

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The handle and the front plate of the sheath—designed to be worn at the waist—were made of copper and covered with eye-like decorations known as ocelli.

Another brooch was decorated with ocelli, or eye-shaped symbols, which were “fashionable among Celtic craftsmen” in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E., Vincent Georges, an archaeologist at ...

Another brooch has ocelli, or eyelike markings, a common decorative theme that was "fashionable among Celtic craftsmen" from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., Georges said.