{"id":237842,"date":"2026-05-27T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-say-the-hidden-third-eye-inside-your-skull-is-the-bizarre-reason-you-can-see"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:04:28","slug":"scientists-say-the-hidden-third-eye-inside-your-skull-is-the-bizarre-reason-you-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-say-the-hidden-third-eye-inside-your-skull-is-the-bizarre-reason-you-can-see","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say the hidden \u201cthird eye\u201d inside your skull is the bizarre reason you can see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-the-hidden-third-eye-inside-your-skull-is-the-bizarre-reason-you-can-see2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly published hypothesis suggests that human eyes evolved from a single \u201cthird eye\u201d on an ancient ancestor\u2019s head. This proposed evolutionary detour would explain why vertebrate vision is unique, leaving a functional remnant inside our brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published hypothesis suggests that human eyes evolved from a single \u201cthird eye\u201d on an ancient ancestor\u2019s head. This proposed evolutionary detour would explain why vertebrate vision is unique, leaving a functional remnant inside our brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}