#865 Why do some birds have red eyes?
Why do some birds have red eyes? Birds with red eyes have a lot of tiny blood vessels in their eyes. Human eyes come in one of six colors. Our…
Why do some birds have red eyes? Birds with red eyes have a lot of tiny blood vessels in their eyes. Human eyes come in one of six colors. Our…
Why can mantis shrimp see so many colors? It turns out that they can’t see more colors than we can. They just process the way they see colors differently. Manis…
How do flies perceive time? Flies see the world in slow motion, possibly seeing things four times slower than we do. We have probably all tried to swat a fly…
Why do cameras have mirrors? To flip the image so that we can see it the right way up through the viewfinder. There are two types of cameras: ones with…
How can an eagle see so far? Eagles can see about eight times farther than humans because the cones in their eyes are very small and tightly grouped together. There…
Why do eyes get worse with age? It happens because the lenses of the eye become less flexible and it becomes difficult to focus the light. How does the eye…
Why are sunsets such beautiful colors? The beautiful colors of sunrises and sunsets are caused because light rays are scattered by particles in the sky. Light has different wavelengths and…
I learned this today. We can’t see colors in the dark because our eyes detect light waves in two different ways. In our eyes, we have rods and cones that…