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 ...

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.