The owl has to turn its head to see to either side. The ostrich has the largest eyes of any land animal. The eyes have a ...

Meanwhile, he says, if you're the kind of animal that gets hunted, "you're very likely to have a horizontal pupil" and to have your eyes on the side of your head. That makes sense, he says ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom ... the axons going away. The side effect of the inverted retina ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

The comprehensive, groundbreaking research on animal pupil shapes by the vision scientist Martin Banks was a side trip from ... Where on the head were its eyes located? What did the animal ...

In these animals, communication between members of the same species often (usually) involve the actions of the head with its mouth and eyes. A number of vertebrate species easily recognize the ...

The compound eyes rotate independently in all directions, like ball bearings in greasy sockets. And even when these eyes are spun completely sideways, the animals still know that up is up ...

using heightened visual perception to hunt smaller sea animals. S. hirpex was roughly the size of a human hand and had two protruding eyes with hundreds of lenses on each side of its head ...

“Sure enough, when goats, antelope and other grazing prey animals put their head down to eat, their eyes rotated to maintain the pupils’ horizontal alignment with the ground.” On the other side of the ...

In 1977, British palaeontologist Simon Conway-Morris discovered the fossil of a truly weird animal ... that the head is the end opposite the blobby balloon. For a start, it has eyes.