Last month, the staff at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center (RRWC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received a distressing call from a ...

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 ...

Living in the deep sea, these ostracods (a kind of crustacean) never see sunlight. They have the best night vision of any known animal and probably use their eyes to search for bioluminescent animals ...

“Meet Kahn, our dashing gentle giant with a heart as big as his paws,” the Charleston Animal Society wrote on its website.

Raptors such as eagles, hawks and falcons have a reputation for having great vision, and that reputation is well-earned.

A sought-after textile artist applies a can-do spirit from her artsy childhood in a Swedish commune to creating animal ...

Fossils of animals like Thrinaxodon, for example, have orbits near the sides of their heads. Finally, in our primate ancestors, the eyes moved to the front of the skull.

To Understand How Animals ... “The other 10,000 species of amphipods basically have the same type of eye ... and a diagram highlighting the placement of the animal’s lateral eyes (in ...

Banks and his team looked at the eyes of 214 different species of land animals, and found a clear relationship between the shape of their pupils and their ecological role. Predatory animals that ...

Scientists suggest that they use glowing patches behind their eyes, called photophores, as a type of biological headlight, allowing the squids to track any movement they see in the murky depths. While ...