Several genetic markers contribute to our final eye color shade. A baby born with blue eyes can have brown eyes by their 1st birthday.

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

Night-vision goggles rely on the fact that living things, and many machines, produce heat at wavelengths far too long for the ...

Scientists have developed contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark. In an extra futuristic twist, they even work ...

A fox was found in Loudoun County with what was later confirmed to be bird flu. The risk to humans remains low, but it marks ...

“The Legend of Ochi,” released in theaters nationwide on April 25 and available to stream starting May 20, follows one tween’s quest to return an injured blue-faced baby primate to its hom ...

Basil, the one-eyed opossum who called the Smithsonian National Zoo home, has died. "We are very sad to share that Basil—a rescued Virginia opossum who was favorite of many Small Mammal House ...

Blue Ridge Wildlife Center recently admitted an adult female red fox from the Town of Hamilton, in Loudoun County, that tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. This is the first report ...

Ranjitsinh’s new book delves into the habits and habitats of 119 mountain mammal taxa of the world ... She stopped short of Ranjitsinh, looked into his eyes, touched his left flank, and suddenly left ...

this may indicate that the purpose of its eyes is to see bioluminescent signals in the otherwise pitch-black nighttime sea. “We have a theory that the worms themselves are bioluminescent and ...

Their eyes are so surprisingly large that scientists set out to determine how well they could see and found they are as sharp as the eyes of mammals ... If you use normal blue or green light ...