Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's some science trivia for you: unlike the inner retina in most animals (including us), birds' inner retinas function without ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a material traversed by a network of channels the size of micrometres in the same way as the microstructure of a bird's feather. To do so they have developed a ...

A newly discovered retinal structure in the eyes of certain kinds of songbirds might help the animals find and track insect prey more easily. However, the researchers have discovered a ...

A newly discovered retinal structure in the eyes of certain kinds of songbirds might help the animals find and track insect prey more easily. The foundation of avian vision rests on cells called cone ...