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 ...

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound eyes of the fruit fly (which glow at center due to a fluorescent protein) ...

(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 ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 objects in ...

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 ...