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So, what animal has the best vision? In reality, there's no easy answer — but there are certainly some standouts. "There is no perfect visual system," Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, a professor of ...
If you’ve ever been curious about how different animals view the world, a team of researchers have you covered — and they’ve ever released the open-source, free software so that you can test ...
Gathering vision data for hundreds of vertebrates and invertebrates, University of Arkansas biologists have deepened scientists’ understanding of animal vision, including the colors they see ...
One of the most common adaptations seen in the animal kingdom is vision. Nearly 96% of all animals have some kind of eyes and they've proven so evolutionary advantageous that they've evolved ...
A recent study has illuminated the evolutionary journey of color vision in animals, revealing a surprising timeline: animals developed the ability to see colors around 500 million years ago—well ...
The old-style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs ...
Changes in the colour and intensity of light pollution over the past few decades result in complex and unpredictable effects on animal vision, new research shows.
Unlike us, many animals can see ultraviolet light. If you're using a video screen to study their visual perception, therefore, that screen really ought to work in the UV spectrum – and a new one ...
Biologists modified simple electronics to create a color vision test for fiddler crabs and other animals.
Hummingbirds can see colors humans can only imagine, an ability that now sheds light on an extra dimension of animal vision, a new study finds. Compared to many other animals, humans are colorblind.
The Animal Vision Center of Virginia is offering an eye screening that usually costs more than $100 to pets of first responders and healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.