Animals with unique eyes. The Tarsier: Big-eyed nocturnal primates. The tarsier’s eyes are so large they take up most of its tiny face, making this nocturnal primate look like a character from a ...

Main Eyes: Their largest eyes, the compound lateral eyes, are used primarily for finding mates during breeding season. These complex eyes contain up to 1,000 individual lenses, providing a wide ...

Their compound eyes move independently and they have 12 to 16 visual pigments compared to our three. They are the only animals known to be able to see circular polarised light. Experiments suggest ...

In the wild, seeing clearly can mean the difference between life and death. While some animals rely on speed or camouflage to survive, others have evolved a different advantage– huge eyes.

To Understand How Animals See in the Abyss, Scientists Peer Through the Eyes of an Alien Amphipod. The team utilized computer models to understand how a four-eyed crustacean sees in the deep ocean ...

While they’re called simple eyes, that’s only relative to the complexity of a compound eye; honeybee ocelli, for example, still have around 800 retinal cells each.

To understand why animals with albinism have red eyes, it’s first important to know what albinism actually is – a genetic condition that stops cells from being able to produce melanin, a ...

As night settled across a forest in northeastern India, some “stocky” creatures with “fiery orange” eyes began calling for mates. The calls worked — but also caught the attention of ...

Unlike other animals that turn their eyes to look around, tarsiers rely on an extraordinary neck rotation—up to 180 degrees in each direction! Stalk-eyed flies: Eyes on stems ...