Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Eyespots appear on both adults and larvae and are often highly distinguishable from the rest of the animals' wing patterns. The eye-catching markings are usually circular, made up of concentric rings ...

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 ...

We might have big brains and fancy gadgets, but some animals are wired with senses straight out of a sci-fi script. We're ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

Bumblebees refine visual discrimination through selective and structured scanning, demonstrating a dynamic interplay between movement and perception in pattern recognition.