Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

We might have big brains and fancy gadgets, but some animals are wired with senses straight out of a sci-fi script. We're ...

There’s a popular saying that “the eye is the jewel of the body.” This saying is not only referring humans, animals have some eyes that are nothing short of beautiful. Contents1. Mantis Shrimp2.

From eyes the size of a dinner plate to 360-degree vision, these animals boast extraordinarily efficient ways of seeing. Meet the creatures with the most crafty, strange and sophisticated eyes in the ...

Living animals illustrate every possible intermediate ... These degenerations occurred because eyes take a lot of energy to make and maintain. In particular, the neurons that carry signals from ...

The ability to see the world in color is one most people take for granted. But our earliest primate ancestors lacked this ability. When and how did we gain the ability to see the world the way we do?

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...