As humans, we experience an amazing world of colour, but what can other animals see? Some see much more than us, but how they use this vision is largely unknown.
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2013
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A University of Utah biologist has identified 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of the tiny but monstrous-looking insects after ancient Mayan lords and demons.
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of European researchers working at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland has created an artificial compound eye that is comparable to those in insects such as the fruit fly. ...
You might expect dung beetles to keep their "noses to the ground," but they are actually incredibly attuned to the sky. A report published online on January 24 in Current Biology shows that even on the darkest of nights, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2013
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Using the compound eyes of the humble moth as their inspiration, an international team of physicists has developed new nanoscale materials that could someday reduce the radiation dosages received by patients getting X-rayed, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 3, 2012
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Insects, equipped with complex compound eyes, can maintain a constant heading in their travels, some of them for thousands of miles. New research demonstrates that fruit flies keep their bearings by using the polarization ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2012
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Despite their simple compound eyes crabs have evolved a smart way to tell the difference between friend and foe, new scientific research has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Nov 28, 2011
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Palaeontologists have uncovered half-a-billion-year-old fossils demonstrating that primitive animals had excellent vision.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 29, 2011
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