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 ...

Animals with pupils stretched horizontally tend to be plant-eating prey species with eyes on either side of their head. This creates a wider, more expanded field of view. Since they’re aligned ...

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 ...

and they have eyes located on either side of their head. These sideways-facing eyes allow an animal to see in front of and behind itself, an ability also known as panoramic vision. Humans and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tests showed that eyes with horizontal-slit pupils offered an expanded field of view. Located on each side of the prey animal’s head, they provide a panoramic visual display that improves its ...

The CT scans revealed unique stalked eyes jutting from the side of the head ... Because the head belongs to a juvenile, the explanation might lie in the animal's life stage, Lamsdell suggested.