From their beans to their bleps, cats have fascinated us for thousands of years and, with the advent of the internet, our ...

Cats have superior night vision, allowing them to see in low light far better than humans. But what makes their eyes so ...

But sometimes it misses the mark. The tapetum lucidum gives the eye a second chance to detect the light by reflecting it back towards the retina again. It is the reason some mammals, including cats, ...

Like cats, an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye – a structure that reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light. The colour of eyeshine differs ...

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