• Drusas@fedia.io
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    15 hours ago

    I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it’s pretty easy to tell that they are not.

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      7 hours ago

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

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        6 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.

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          6 hours ago

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