A comparison of the (false-colored) eyes of the robber fly (left), the ... acuity in the fly's visual field. The fly's peripheral vision, on the other hand, is not as impressive.

Robber flies are aerodynamic acrobats ... That data can then be used to build a distance map of the surroundings. But compared to using simple visual cues (i.e., "reactive methods"), path-planning ...

You might expect that the miniature brains and eyes of tiny robber flies would limit ... "We knew that these flies likely had an improved vision compared to other true flies, but we never imagined ...

The robber fly Holcocephala is a relatively small fly ... more than half a metre away in less than half a second -- by comparison to its size, this would be the equivalent of a human spotting ...

The mid-air hunting strategy of a tiny fly the size of a grain of rice has been revealed by an international team of scientists. Holcocephala, a species of robber fly, is able to intercept and ...

Private jets, on the other hand, tend to fly even higher ... flight durations with significantly lower ground and air time ...

The victim had been talking on her mobile with her spare hand lying flat on a fence post when she was brutally attacked A DESPERATE robber used an AXE to chop off a wealthy woman's hand so he ...

The mid-air hunting strategy of a tiny fly the size of a grain of rice has been revealed by an international team of scientists. Holcocephala, a species of robber fly, is able to intercept and ...