Biologists modified simple electronics to create a color vision test for fiddler crabs and other animals.

Based on their statistical analysis, Wiens and Emberts conclude color vision in animals came first, evolving more than 100 million years before plants began producing colorful fruits and flowers.

In many cases it is the color of the prey that helps predatory birds to detect, pursue and capture them. In a new study, biologists show that the Harris's hawk has the best color vision of ...

If a spider’s eight eyes don’t impress you, consider this: Some of them can even see in “true” color. Scientists have studied the vision in a group of brightly-hued jumping spiders and ...

The novel tech should allow scientists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately represent the colors seen by animals such as bees for the first time.

In this study, the researchers analyzed the expression patterns of light-sensitive proteins called opsins that are often present in animals' eyes. Contrary to assumptions, they found that most ...

Color vision helps animals select their food and mates and avoid predators. Bees, for instance, can see ultraviolet bull’s-eye patterns in yellow flowers that directs them to the nectar.

Learn more about the mantis shrimp that has between 12 and 16 photoreceptors, compared to humans that only have three.

CVDs are described as any color vision that doesn’t align with standard trichromatic color vision and are the result of an individual’s cone cells functioning abnormally.

To use it, you start by selecting an animal from the provided list of species. Based on that selection, the software will then advise you on the camera settings needed for taking your photo (s ...

Many animals once thought to have poor sight in low light use tricks in their nervous systems to see brilliantly in the dark ...