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 ...

On a windy day at a beach 40 miles north of Cairns, I help a team led by Dan Nilsson, a zoology professor at Sweden’s Lund University and a renowned expert on animal eyes, in catching ten ...

Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...