During the age of dinosaurs, small predators with unexpectedly advanced eyes hunted in the darkness roughly 100 million years ...

these horsefly males have two different sized ommatidia (the photoreceptor units that form insects' compound eyes). The larger ommatidia at the top of the eye are more sensitive to UV light, and help ...

Each arm has a tiny eye at the tip, meaning a five-armed starfish has five eyes, while some species with more arms have even more. These molluscs have up to 200 tiny, blue eyes lining the edges of ...

He is supposed to eat the eyes and give the ... the harmful insects have disappeared, and the jaglavak as well, for they do not remain in the compound, unlike the gula ant (which the Kapsiki ...

Researchers reconstruct the tiny eye of Megaphragma viggianii in 3D, revealing adaptations and possible technological applications.

Furthermore, various animal groups have evolved very different types of eyes. The insects have evolved a compound eye, which consists of many individual eyes with individual lenses. The squid ...

“Insects and crustaceans have become so successful despite their compound eyes, not because of them,” says Nilsson. “They would have done so much better with camera-type eyes. But evolution ...

Using information from each lens and light receptor, the eyes produce a single mosaic image - somewhat like pixels. The more pixels, the sharper the image. Living insects and crustaceans have compound ...

Two elegant flying insects are similar enough that they’re confused for one another. I’m talking about the dragonfly and ...

In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global flora changes through time shaped the evolution of hemipteran insects ... one pair of compound eyes and ocellar median ...