The Golden Mole's Eyes

Aeben have light sensitive patches that can fulfil the same function of detecting light and dark, but they're not nearly that complicated. Building out a fully functional eye and then immediately covering it up with fur would get any engineer fired. The ancestors of these creatures didn't have gills, so they don't either. In humans, the problem has blown to laughable proportions in dreths. Their r l n does exactly the same thing, except it turns a trip that could have been a few centimeters into a troop of trip of several meters. Now finally, i'll end with a crowd favorite, the recurrent laringel nerve. This is the nerve that branches from the vaguest

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