These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional fovea, where the ommatidia are larger and almost parallel to each other; in the rest of the compound eye, the ...

Some species of dragonfly have more than 28,000 lenses per compound eye, a greater number than any other living creature. And with eyes covering almost their entire head, they have nearly 360-degree ...

The animal kingdom is home to creatures whose eyesight is sharper than ours. While humans rely on their sight for most daily activities, many animals depend on their vision to hunt, evade predators, ...

Take this dragonfly, for example. Its eyes are actually made up of thousands of tiny different lenses. We call this kind of eye a compound eye, and because all the little lenses point in different ...

If you’ve ever watched a dragonfly zig and zag over a pond in search of dinner, you know how fast these gauzy-winged insects can move. In less than half the time it takes a human eye to blink, a ...