If optimists see the world through rose-colored lenses, some birds see it through ultraviolet ones. Avians have evolved ultraviolet vision quite a few times in history, a new study finds. Birds depend ...

Unlike us, many animals can see ultraviolet light. If you're using a video screen to study their visual perception, therefore, that screen really ought to work in the UV spectrum – and a new one does ...

First, some basics: Vision depends on light, which comes in a spectrum of wavelengths, ranging from very long to very short. Vertebrate eyes have two kinds of light receptors in the retina at the back ...

If optimists see the world through rose-colored lenses, some birds see it through ultraviolet ones. Avians have evolved ultraviolet vision quite a few times in history, a new study finds. Birds depend ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Despite the biological importance of UV vision, its molecular bases are not well understood. Here, we present evidence that UV vision in ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --It's easy to get lost in a coral reef. To locate friends and family, anemonefish evolved the ability to see ultraviolet light. To better understand how anemonefish navigate the bright, ...

A bird’s-eye view can completely change your perspective on things. And I mean that literally. A pair of European researchers used a specially configured camera and took pictures of trees in order to ...

Humans and most other mammals cannot see ultraviolet (UV) light, whereas some rodents can. A Chilean-German research team has now reported UV vision in the South-American degu, a distant relative of ...

The reindeer is called caribou in North America but retains the name reindeer across Europe and Asia. However, when caribou are domesticated in North America, they are referred to as reindeer. What a ...

Ultraviolet light has always sat at the edge of human perception, powerful yet invisible, more associated with sterilizing ...