From ostriches with eyes as big as billiard balls to fearsome giant squids, these creatures have some of the largest peepers among the world's animals.
From ostriches with eyes as big as billiard balls to fearsome giant squids, these creatures have some of the largest peepers among the world's animals.Sight is one of the most widespread senses in the animal kingdom. In fact, eyes have independently evolved among life on Earth anBut, as delightful as the world appears through human eyes, it's but a shadow of the splendors seen by creatures with larger, more sophisticated visual faculties.
In short, if you ever shine a flashlight at an owl at night, you’d have trouble missing their glowing ocular orbs.Of course, owls are flying birds and must limit their weight lest they become one of the world’s numerous species of flightless birds. For the already flightless ostrich Colossal squids, able to grow to a maximum recorded length of 33 feet , use their eyes to detect faint traces of bioluminescence in the ocean’s midnight zone, thousands of feet beneath the sunlit surface. Scientists suggest that they use, called photophores, as a type of biological headlight, allowing the squids to track any movement they see in the murky depths.
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