For some reason, cats have some of the most mesmerizing eyes in the entire world. They're so big, often very wide, and ...

Animals with blue eyes are a rare occurrence in nature due to being linked to recessive genetics, mutations, and specific ...

Indeed, there are about 10 different types of eye design in the animal kingdom, and eyes have evolved independently across animal species approximately 50 times or more. Furthermore, genetic ...

Birds, butterflies, honeybees and mice were among the first animals to ... of the different types of light animals are able to process. To “see through” animal eyes, the team uses two cameras ...

Eyes of the peacock mantis shrimp. The black bands show where it’s looking. Credit: Mike Bok This is the eye of a mantis shrimp—an marine animal that’s neither a mantis nor a shrimp ...

A link between pupil shape and the feeding behaviour of animals has been made by studying the eyes of 214 species ... To understand how certain pupil shapes can benefit different types of animals, ...

Most animals have two to four types of photoceptors — cells that detect different wavelengths ... red, or blue wavelengths of light. When light hits our eyes, the receptors turn these colors ...

This is thanks to three different types of light-sensitive proteins in our eyes, called opsins. We are not alone: di-, tri- and tetra-chromatic vision is de rigueur in the animal world ...

Rudolph’s red nose may have gone down in history, but research says it was probably his shining blue eyes — a common ... That includes the animals’ food of choice: a type of lichen known ...

Cameras recorded footage in red, blue, green and UV channels simultaneously, with openly available software processing the raw footage and converting it into different kinds of "animal vision ...

The way different species view colors varies wildly across the animal kingdom. Human eyes, for example, are sensitive to the colors red, green, and blue, a step up from most of our fellow mammals ...