Anyone who's tried to swat a pesky mosquito knows how quickly the insects can evade a hand or fly swatter. The pests' compound eyes, which provide a wide field of view, are largely responsible for ...

After 50 years, this amazing structure is confirmed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The humble trilobite, a helmet-headed ...

The eye is often put on a pedestal as an example of the complexity of nature, but evolution has its shortcuts. A new experiment from Indiana University has shown how natural selection can create ...

Factors, such as temperature, humidity, food, light, which are difficult to control, affect the duration of metamorphosis in the blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala). To avoid errors of timing in ...

Insect eyes are a wonder of natural engineering. Anyone can tell that bug eyes are special in a complex way with just one glance at their shape and construction. But when you get down into this marvel ...

A study describes the internal structures of an early trilobite eye. The mechanisms of vision early in animal evolution are poorly understood due to a lack of preserved internal eye structures in the ...

(CN) — Nearly 500 million years ago, life on Earth was very different. The continents were rocky and dry with little vegetation and the barren poles held no ice. Nearly all plant and animal life ...

Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods. Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had ...