• fakeaustinfloyd
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    3 hours ago

    Flounders are born symmetrical; eye migration happens as they transition to the juvenile stage of growth.

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      2 hours ago

      Isn’t it referring to during development? Like as they’re forming, they are bilateral? I haven’t taken developmental biology in many years, so I’m maybe wrong.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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        They are born (or hatch too lazy to look up) and their eyes move later once they get larger.