An extinct species of brachyuran crab called Callichimaera perplexa was a highly visual predator inhabiting well-lit environments, according to new research...
Cell classes are the building blocks for the central nervous system. It is widely believed that major classes of neurons have been identified in the retina,...
Trilobites are extinct arthropods that dominated the faunas of the Paleozoic Era. Since their appearance 523 million years ago, they were equipped with...
A duo of researchers in Spain has examined the acute effect of compounds found in cocoa and red berries on retinal functions in healthy eyes.
In healthy...
Shuvuuia deserti, a species of alvarezsauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, had extreme low-light vision...
The largest genome-wide association study for eye color to date, involving up to 192,986 European participants from 10 populations, has identified 124...
A team of paleontologists from Australia and the United Kingdom has found that ancient deep-sea creatures called radiodonts developed sophisticated eyes...
Paleontologists in China have uncovered exceptionally preserved fossils of a previously unknown genus and species of extinct arthropod, Kylinxia zhangi,...
Paleontologists recently found well-preserved dinosaur eggs in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 80 million...
Paleontologists have found that Aulacopleura koninckii, a species of trilobite that lived around 429 million years ago (Silurian period), was equipped...
Looking at 670-nm red light for three minutes a day can significantly improve cone color contrast sensitivity (the ability to detect colors) and rod sensitivity...
A team of researchers has found a novel retinal structure in the eyes of New World flycatchers. Named the megamitochondria-small oil droplet complex (MMOD...
An international team of scientists has successfully sequenced ancient DNA extracted from a 5,700-year-old piece of chewed birch pitch from southern Denmark....
Humans and other mammals are limited to seeing a range of wavelengths of light called visible light, which includes the wavelengths of the rainbow. But...
In a paper published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, an international team of paleontologists from the University of Kansas, the Korea Polar...
A team of researchers in China has developed drug-delivering contact lenses that could self-report the drug release process by color change. The team’s...
In a study examining the DNA of over 6,000 dogs, researchers at Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, have identified that duplication of a part...
A team of scientists led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has successfully reversed congenital blindness in mice by changing supportive cells...
Curcumin, a polyphenol extracted from turmeric (Curcuma longa), could be used in eye drops to treat the early stages of glaucoma and other eye diseases...
