RE: Eagle eyes/ORNITHISCHIAN EYES

["Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>]

Pete Buchholz wrote (3/22/00; 9:17pm):

>I suggest that the reason ornithischians got palpabrals in the first place
is
so that the eyes wouldn't fall out of their heads-; or more exactly, so that

the eyeballs and eyelids would have ample attachment areas within the eye
socket because the frontals were so thin and narrow side-to-side.<


In doing my research for my article in Prehistoric Times, to my surprise I
found out that for the most part, eyes aren't round. And a 'shorter' eye for
ornithischians would work quite well, since it would increase the focal
area, and their iris would probably be rectangular to allow more 'light,
images' without increasing the size of the eye.
Tracy