Q: What fascinates you about the eye? A: The eye is an absolutely fascinating organ because it's an organ of extreme perfection, as Darwin has called it. We are able to adjust the focus, we are able ...

Yet to Mother Nature, the evolution of the eye isn’t really a difficult feat at all, it turns out. Indeed, there are about 10 different types of eye design in the animal kingdom, and eyes have evolved ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can’t go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems that ...

The field of biomimetic imaging systems and artificial compound eyes represents a fusion of biological inspiration and advanced engineering to develop compact, high-performance visual devices. These ...

"Overall, everything about this compound eye looks modern—“comparable to that of living bees, dragonflies and many diurnal [daylight-dwelling] Crustaceans,” the researchers write. That would show just ...

How do other animals see the world? Scientists have studied the workings of the eye and vision of a wide range of animals. Eye evolution turns out to be extremely variable depending on the feeding ...