and two googly compound eyes, like muffins mounted on stalks, peer back at him. “Mr. Googles,” as Cronin affectionately calls him, is a gorgeous animal, bedecked in a kaleidoscopic coat of ...

These solitary, aggressive animals are famous for their ferocious ... and yellow—and red legs. Their purple eyes sit on top of stalks above their head and can move independently of one other ...

The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in the biggest specimens, set on the end of stalks. Compound eyes are made up of many repeating units, known as ommatidia, ...