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  2. Colossal squid - Wikipedia

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    The eye is 27 cm (10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide, with a lens 12 cm (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) across. This is the largest eye of any known animal. [30] These measurements are of the partly collapsed specimen; alive, the eye was probably 30 [31] to 40 cm (12 to 16 in) across. [57] Inspection of the specimen with an endoscope revealed ovaries containing thousands ...

  3. Mammalian vision - Wikipedia

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    Nocturnal animals (for example, tarsiers) and animals that live in open landscapes have larger eyes. The vision of forest animals is not so sharp, and in burrowing underground species (moles, gophers, zokors), eyes are reduced to a greater extent, in some cases (marsupial moles, mole rats, blind mole), they are even covered by a skin membrane.

  4. 100 animal trivia questions that will make you think - AOL

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    What is another name for a gnu? Answer: Wildebeest. When traveling in groups, this animal is referred to as a “mob.” Answer: Kangaroo. Among all the venomous snakes, this reptile is the longest.

  5. Mammalian eye - Wikipedia

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    The tapetum lucidum, in animals that have it, can produce eyeshine, for example as seen in cat eyes at night. Red-eye effect, a reflection of red blood vessels, appears in the eyes of humans and other animals that have no tapetum lucidum, hence no eyeshine, and rarely in animals that have a tapetum lucidum. The red-eye effect is a photographic ...

  6. Cephalopod size - Wikipedia

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    They added that a 55-foot (17 m) specimen, such as the one reported from Thimble Tickle, [nb 9] "would have weighed 29 1 ⁄ 4 or 30 tons [26.5 or 27.2 tonnes] including the tentacles—a truly noble animal, being a little more than one-fifth the weight of the largest whale and larger than the whale sharks and basking sharks, the largest of all ...

  7. Mollusc eye - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, many molluscs may have a multitude of eyes in more unlikely places, such as along the edge of their shell. [1] Chitons have a dispersed network of tiny eyes over the surface of their shells which may act together as a compound eye. [1] Many gastropods have stalked eyes; the eye can be retracted into the stalk itself in the ...

  8. Bird vision - Wikipedia

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    The eye of a bird is larger compared to the size of the animal than for any other group of animals, although much of it is concealed in its skull. The ostrich has the largest eye of any land vertebrate, with an axial length of 50 mm (2.0 in), twice that of the human eye. [1] Bird eye size is broadly related to body mass.

  9. Ophthalmosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Ophthalmosaurus (Greek ὀφθάλμος ophthalmos 'eye' and σαῦρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of ichthyosaur known from the Middle-Late Jurassic. Possible remains from the earliest Cretaceous, around 145 million years ago, are also known. It was a relatively medium-sized ichthyosaur, measuring 4 m (13 ft) long and weighing 940 kg ...