Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Nautilus

    Jeepers, Creepers. Where the Heck Did You Get Those Peepers?

    by Rose Eveleth May 10, 2013 2 minutes

    Last week, we asked you to pick out human eyes from animal eyes that look similar. It was probably harder than you expected. This week’s eyeball challenge, again courtesy of some great photographs by Suren Manvelyan, might be even harder. Can you tell which very inhuman-looking eyes (bigger images below) belong to which animals? 

    Here’s a list of animals to choose from: anole lizard, caiman (an alligator-like reptile),

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Nautilus

    Nautilus7 min read
    The Feminist Botanist
    Lydia Becker sat down at her desk in the British village of Altham, a view of fields unfurling outside of her window. Surrounded by her notes and papers, the 36-year-old carefully wrote a short letter to the most eminent and controversial scientist o
    Nautilus13 min read
    The Shark Whisperer
    In the 1970s, when a young filmmaker named Steven Spielberg was researching a new movie based on a novel about sharks, he returned to his alma mater, California State University Long Beach. The lab at Cal State Long Beach was one of the first places
    Nautilus9 min read
    The Invasive Species
    Several features of animal bodies have evolved and disappeared, then re-evolved over the history of the planet. Eyes, for example, both simple like people’s and compound like various arthropods’, have come and gone and come again. But species have no

    Related Books & Audiobooks