The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

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

There’s a popular saying that “the eye is the jewel of the body.” This saying is not only referring humans, animals have some eyes that are nothing short of beautiful. Contents1. Mantis Shrimp2.

Schwab, author of Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved. So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the ...