The vision of birds of prey is often cited as one of the most advanced in the animal kingdom. These hunting birds spot their ...

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 ...

Each cone type contains a pigment sensitive to particular wavelengths of light. The range of colours an animal sees depends on the combination of colour-sensitive pigments in their eye and the ...

It’s the first thing you see about an animal—where their eye is located and what the pupil shape is.” A version of this story ran in 2015; it has been updated for 2023. Related Tags ...