Anomalocaris is another early arthropod relative with surprising optics. The marine animal had giant compound eyes, about the size of a snooker ball in the biggest specimens, set on the end of stalks.

Each eye is about the same volume as the animal's brain. Trilobites lived between 521 and 252 million years ago. They were one of the first groups of creatures to develop complex, compound eyes, where ...

Trilobites went down a slightly different route, evolving compound eyes with multiple lenses. But the basic sequence of events was the same. Trilobites weren’t the only animals to stumble across ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.

The authors propose several parameters for evaluating biomimetic curved artificial compound eyes (BCACEs), including the ...