While animals with forward-facing eyes lose the ability to see what's behind them, they gain X-ray vision, according to Mark Changizi, assistant professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer ...

Forward-facing eyes allowed our ancestors to see through the dense leaves and branches in their forest habitat (Getty) The clutter problem is unique to large-bodied animals in forests, such as ...

Have you ever considered that the creatures we find most repulsive might actually be the ones we should appreciate most?

“If you ask people what animal eyes are used for ... Nilsson’s eyes, of which he has two, are ice blue and forward facing. In contrast, the box jelly boasts 24 eyes, which are dark brown ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom ... the two front facing eyes are clearly enlarged.

Furthermore, animals that hunt at night ... The team found that vertical pupils allow an ambush predator with forward-facing eyes to make a very accurate measurement of the distance to its prey ...

We found animals with vertically elongated pupils ... For example, mongooses have forward-facing eyes but horizontal pupils, geckos have huge circular pupils when dilated which reduce down to ...

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“They are freaky and weird looking—you want to know what is going on with their eyeballs,” says Duke biologist Katie Thomas, who led a new study on the animal ... hit an eye facing ...