Even though sharks don’t have the sharpest, most detailed vision, their specialized eyes help them excel as hunters in the ...

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 ...

Grazing animals have different problems to deal with. They need to check all around for prey and they need to flee rapidly in case of attack. Having eyes towards the side of their head helps them ...

Eyes in the animal kingdom are as diverse as the creatures themselves, each type evolved for a specific purpose in a unique habitat. From eyes that can split vision across two worlds to those that ...

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 ...

That research suggests the animals might cock their furry noggins when processing familiar words. “In humans, when you remember a story or something, you tilt your head to the side, and you have ...

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.

the creature had eyes on the side of its head like a horse. The position of the animal’s large canines meant there was no room for the animal to have eyes on the front of its face. Eyes don’t ...

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.