Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann at the University ...

Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - a now extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over 20,000 species have been ...

Human eyes are only one solution among many. This episode explains why animals evolved slit pupils, compound eyes, and independently moving eyes. Each design solves a specific problem efficiently.

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. A few centuries ago, scientists believed insects saw thousands of tiny, repeated images — like a kaleidoscope of candle ...

Unlike Derek Zoolander, ants don't have any difficulty turning left. New research from the University of Bristol has now found rock ants often have one eye slightly better than the other, which could ...

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 ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

Nature boasts mesmerizing creatures with extraordinary eyes, offering unique survival advantages. From stalk-eyed flies with mating-contest-winning eye stalks to four-eyed fish that see above and ...