Chickens 'One-Up' Humans in Ability to See Color

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 16:42 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have peered deep into the eye of the chicken and found a masterpiece of biological design. Scientists discovered that receptors were laid out in interwoven mosaics that maximized the chicken's ability to see color.

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