Parietal eye...Lizards Use Third Eye to Steer by the Sun...etc...

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"A series of clever experiments into the reptilian "third eye" has confirmed that lizards use this patch of light-sensitive cells as a sun-calibrated compass"...
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/thirdeyesteering/

"How Turtles and Crocodiles Lost the Parietal “Third” Eye and Their Differing Color Vision Adaptations"...
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/34/3/776/2996351?login=false

"Occlusion of the Parietal Eye Induces a Transient Wavelength-Dependent Shift in Lizard Thermoregulatory Set Points"...
https://www.gallotia.de/AF/Bibliografie/BIB_2358.pdf
 
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