Is there an animal with one eye?

The answer is yes. And they are everything but big monsters. There are 44 species of the genus Cyclops, also known as water fleas, all with a single eye that is either red or black. Cyclops are between 0.5-3 mm long, have 5 pairs of limbs on the head and another 7 pairs of limbs on the mid-body.
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What animal have no eyes?

Some species are born without eyes such as the kauaʻi cave wolf spider, olm, star-nosed mole and the Mexican tetra.
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Do any animals have 3 eyes?

Short Answer: Yes, but it is more commonly called a parietal eye, and is only found in certain species of lizards, sharks, bony fish, salamanders and frogs. It typically doesn't see, but is instead photoreceptive in nature.
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Is there an animal with more than 2 eyes?

Invertebrates often have more than two eyes. Most spiders, for example, have eight eyes that help them spot and hunt prey. A group of marine molluscs called chitons do even better – they have hundreds of eyes dotted all over the armoured plates that cover their bodies.
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What fish is only one eye?

An aging copper rockfish with cataracts had his left eye surgically removed two years ago at the Vancouver Aquarium. Then, the bullying began. Biologists at the aquarium suspected other fish started picking on the rockfish for only having one eye, so they gave it a prosthetic eye late last year.
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Do all animals have 2 eyes?

While all mammals are believed to have two eyes, some species can have eyes that are vestigial. This means that their eyes are so small that they do not function or work.
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Do any animals have an odd number of eyes?

Caponiidae are unusual in the degree to which the eye number varies. In this they surpass even the family Cybaeidae in which some species have two eyes, some six, and some eight. In some species of the Caponiidae paired eyes meet in the midline, giving the spider in effect, an odd number of eyes.
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Is there an animal with 100 eyes?

If you spot a West Indian fuzzy chiton, it has most likely spotted you too. Chitons may lack a brain, head and eyes in the classic sense, but nestled in the shell of this primitive marine mollusc are hundreds of tiny 'eyes', complete with lenses that focus light to create images.
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Do ants have eyes?

Most ants have two large compound eyes. They have a set of simple eyes, which consist of many omatidia (eye facets) ocelli, which detect light and shadow. Ants also have two antennae they use to recognize their nest mates and detect enemies.
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What animal has a thousand eyes?

While this mollusk may not look like much, it has a few defenses and surprises up its sleeve. This chiton, also known as a sea cradle, has thousands of tiny eyes on its shell — all equipped with a light sensitive cell and a lens.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Which animal has no tongue?

Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email. Mah is a marine invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has discovered numerous species of sea stars.
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Do snakes have eyes?

Snake eyes

They discovered that most snakes have three visual pigments, two of which are in cones. Snakes are therefore likely to be dichromatic in daylight, meaning they see two primary colours compared to the three that humans see.
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What animal Cannot see?

Caenorhabditis elegans—tiny worm-like nematodes—live in complete darkness in the soil, so scientists assumed they could not perceive or respond to light.
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Can ants fart?

Yes. In insects, we usually call it the “gut,” but it does more or less the same things in insects that intestines do in humans.
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Do cockroaches have eyes?

A cockroach has compound eyes. Found on the lateral sides of the head, each compound eye is in the form of a dark kidney-shaped structure made up of around 2000 hexagonal units called the ommatidia or simple eyes.
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Can ants see 3d?

For us three dimensional creatures, the explanation is perfectly clear. But, again, because the ants cannot get off the surface of their sphere to see it, they don't understand how it can be spherical in form.
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What animal has 10 hearts?

Since octopus blood is very copper-rich, it's exceptionally viscous. As a result, it requires a significant amount of pressure to pump blood through its body. To compensate, the octopus evolved three separate hearts to take stress off of its systematic heart and ensure it gets enough oxygen into its gills.
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Which creature has most teeth?

The animal with the most teeth is very likely the sea dwelling Rainbow Slug which has over 700,000 teeth. As far as vertebrates go, some species of shark can get through 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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Is there a god of eyes?

The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re is a being in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as a feminine counterpart to the sun god Ra and a violent force that subdues his enemies. The eye is an extension of Ra's power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it often behaves as an independent goddess.
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Do any spiders have 12 eyes?

And while most spiders have eight eyes arranged in pairs, not all do. Some species do not have any eyes, while others have as many as 12, National Geographic(Opens in a new window) reports.
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Do all spiders have 8 eyes?

Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight.

Spiders usually have eight eyes (some have six or fewer), but few have good eyesight. They rely instead on touch, vibration and taste stimuli to navigate and find their prey.
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Do any spiders have just 2 eyes?

However, spider species in the family of Caponiidae have only 2 eyes, which is an unusual occurrence among spiders. What's even more unusual is that the Caponiidae spiders have the ability to grow an additional number of eyes as they mature.
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