JGC must be busy. :) I'm surprised I found this article before him. It concerns a long-sought explanation for flatfish and how the eyes of these fish ended up on one side of their head. The story is remarkable: this grad student visited museums all over Europe, uncovered centuries old evidence, corrected misclassified fossils, and put together a transitional series of fish with one eye migrating from one side of the head to the other.

This may finally put to rest a question used by creationists since Darwin's time and cited as recently as a 2003 creationist book. How many other answers to vexing questions in evolutionary science may be waiting to be found in dusty old museum storage?

His first "transitional" fossil was an adult specimen he stumbled on in the Paris museum, part of a collection that had been given as a tribute 200 years ago to Napoleon as he fought in Italy. It clearly had an eye socket near the top of the skull, Friedman said, in transit to the other side of the face.