The animal kingdom is home to creatures whose eyesight is sharper than ours. While humans rely on their sight for most daily activities, many animals depend on their vision to hunt, evade predators, ...

The eyes of a Cuban rock iguana, a gargoyle gecko, a blue-eyed black lemur, a southern ground hornbill, a red-eyed tree frog, a domestic goat, a western lowland gorilla, and a human This story ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than ...

By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would look like through their eyes. The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the ...

Most predator animals have their eyes on the front of their skulls (like humans), while prey animals traditionally have their ...