Polarized Peepers: Crustacean's Eyes Surpass Man-Made Optical Devices in Manipulating Light

A fierce crustacean known as the peacock mantis shrimp has eyes so refined they can perceive polarized light, including information that is invisible to nearly every other member of the animal kingdom. Not only can the ocean dweller extract polarization information from light, it can do so when the light is circularly polarized--an ability unknown outside a few species of the order of stomatopods to which the peacock mantis belongs. [More]

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