Jumping spiders are masters of miniature color vision
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
Jumping spiders were already known to see in remarkably high resolution, especially considering that their bodies are less than a centimeter long. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 18 have figured out how spiders in the colorful genus Habronattus see in three color "channels," as most humans do.