“Bees’ eyes are very different from human eyes,” George Kolyfetis, a graduate student in the Department of Biology at the ...

Phil, Mag. from Magasin Encyclopedique, February, 1814.

Fan worms look more like feather dusters than animals. If you come across one while swimming in the ocean, all you’ll see is a beautiful spray of feathery tentacles, sprouting from a rock. These ...

The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's ...

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

Scientists now explain the remarkable ability of marine zooplankton to swim towards light. A new study reveals how simple eyes of only two cells, sense the direction of light and guide movement ...