Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...

Many of the animals that eat red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal hunters that use keen eyesight to find prey. The shocking colors of this frog may over-stimulate a predator's eyes, creating a ...

Many animals have evolved striking red hues ... Famous for its striking red eyes and vivid green body, the red-eyed tree frog ...

If you ask people what animal eyes are used for, they'll say: same thing as human eyes. But that's not true at all. In his lab at Lund University in Sweden, Dan-Eric Nilsson is contemplating the ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...