Oct 12, 2024, 10:45 PM IST

5 animals with biggest eyes

Pavan Naidu

Certain animals are known for their remarkably large and wide eyes.

Here are five animals that have the biggest eyes in the world.

Colossal squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, measuring up to 11 inches across. Their eyes are so big that they are about the size of a soccer ball.

Colossal squid

The eyes of an ostrich are the largest of any land animal, and are larger than their brain.

Ostrich

Tarsiers possess the largest eyes of any mammal relative to their body size, with each eyeball measuring approximately 16 mm in diameter.

Tarsiers

The bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) boasts the largest eyes of any living fish species, with a size that can reach up to 3.9 inches (10 centimeters) in length.

Bigeye thresher shark

These fish have eyes about 3.5 to 3.9 inches in diameter.

Swordfish

This information is not DNA’s opinion but obtained from media reports.