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Members of the animal kingdom come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. All of these animals have blue eyes.
Whatever the evolutionary advantage, animals' color is inextricably intertwined with their environment, be it the bright ...
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 ...
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 ...
To understand why animals with albinism have red eyes, it’s first important to know what albinism actually is – a genetic condition that stops cells from being able to produce melanin ...
1 In his new book Through A Vet’s Eyes: How We Can All Choose a Better Life for Animals, Sean Wensley, an award-winning veterinarian who drove the development of BVA’s first Animal Welfare ...
But even eagle-eyed critters struggle to see in the dark, which is why animals in the deepest and darkest depths of the ocean have developed some of the most extreme eyes on the planet.