An assortment of animals active after dark have evolved remarkable night vision, giving them a clear advantage when the sun goes down. Their eyes are often larger in proportion to their heads, with ...

The title of this article is a bit misleading: no animals can actually see in complete darkness. Animals with so-called “night vision” take a small amount of light and maximize it through evolutionary ...

Nature’s diversity is most apparent when viewed through the eyes, literally. Throughout the animal kingdom, the ability to ...

When you hear the word reindeer, you probably think of magical creatures that pull Santa’s flying sleigh one night a year.

But in a cat’s eye, light that passes through the retina without being absorbed hits the tapetum lucidum, which reflects it back through the retina. This gives the retina a second chance to capture ...

London Zoo keepers have captured striking photographs of their most "superstition-shrouded" nocturnal residents with a night-vision technique. Capturing the wide-eyed stare of the bushbaby and the aye ...

A bioinspired robotic eye could inspire the next generation of autonomous vehicles, drones and industrial robots.