Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision ...

Rainbow shrimp vision is the most complex of any animal on Earth. Also known as the mantis shrimp, the creature has between 12 and 16 photoreceptors, allowing them to see light in wavelengths ranging ...

Grab your glasses for this one, because we’re talking animal eyes. Eyesight is one of the most important adaptations animals rely on for survival. As humans, we know how much we depend on our eyesight ...

Imagine you're a red-tailed hawk, soaring through the sky. You scan the ground, looking for your next meal. You spot a squirrel hundreds of feet below you. Its coat helps it blend into the ground, but ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

One of the most common adaptations seen in the animal kingdom is vision. Nearly 96% of all animals have some kind of eyes and they've proven so evolutionary advantageous that they've evolved multiple ...

Model of PEDF protein alongside the 17-mer and H105A peptides. Amino acid 105, which is changed from histidine in PEDF and the 17-mer peptide to alanine in the H105A peptide, is shown in green.

Close observations and studies have shown that many frogs use their eyeballs to help push food down their throat!