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ITHACA, N.Y. — If brain size is proportional to body size in virtually all vertebrate animals, Cornell University biologists reasoned, shouldn't eye size and body size scale the same way? While they ...

In the cold, dark waters surrounding Antarctica lives an animal so elusive that scientists have examined only a handful of ...

Gibbons focus strongly on eyes, especially other gibbons’ eyes, offering clues about the evolution of primate social ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

The team utilized computer models to understand how a four-eyed crustacean sees in the deep ocean’s twilight zone Jack Tamisiea Some of the strangest eyes on the planet belong to Phronima amphipods, a ...

Snakes never blink because their eyes are covered by transparent spectacles instead of eyelids. Discover how these protective ...

Cats and many other animals, including most dogs, can reflect light from their eyes. That’s why cats’ eyes will usually shine brightly in photos taken in a dimly lit room or glow when illuminated in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Millions of years before color vision and binocular sight, ...

Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped pupils, while others can see in multiple directions at once or detect colors ...

Veterinarians are incredibly important "middle people" between people who live with or use a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) and the animals themselves. 1 In his new book Through A Vet’s ...