I recently had the opportunity to work with my son, Ian's, second grade class and talk about eyes and vision. As I put together the presentation, I kept in mind that at this age, kids are wowed with the "little known" facts of the world and decided to pull out a few of my favorite animal eye facts:
Scorpions have as many as 12 eyes, and some flatworms have more than 100 eyes scattered all over their bodies!
The giant squid has the largest eyeball on the face of the earth—it’s about the size of a soccer ball!
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Hawks and eagles’ eyes are specialized to let them see about 8 times better than humans.
The ostrich has the largest eye of any land animal.
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Bees can have as many as 8,000 lenses in each eye.
Stay tuned for more human facts soon!
