Humans rely on sight, which is primarily mediated by three color-sensing cone types, to perceive the world in a kaleidoscope of hues. Blue cones develop earliest, followed by the morphologically ...

Like ours, the fish visual system relies on light-sensitive receptors in the retina called rods and cones: Rods for twilight vision, cones for daylight vision. Researchers examining a 300-million-year ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) The vertebrate eye is a remarkable evolutionary invention, displaying an incredible repertoire, from a soaring falcon's ...

The human eye can see millions of colors — but no eyes have ever before beheld “olo.” Only five people on the planet have witnessed this brand new color, thanks to the efforts of a team of researchers ...