A new study suggests owls could rotate their heads a full 360 degrees. Researchers Panyutina and Kuznetsov used CT scans to analyze owl necks, discovering that neck joints and spinal coiling enable ...

Fabian de Kok-Mercado (left) and Dr. Philippe Gailloud give a CT scan to a dead owl to learn how its blood vessels withstand the rapid, up-to-270-degree turns their heads make. Owls don't need eyes in ...

Owls don't need eyes in the back of their heads to see what's behind them — they can just swivel their heads all the way around. In fact, many owl species, such as the barred owl, can rotate their ...

Take a look around. Maybe you can turn your head to the left and right and move it up and down. You can move your eyes around in a bunch of different directions and perhaps you can even cross them. In ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine reports that a team of Hopkins experts, led by medical illustrator Fabian de Kok-Mercado, have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their heads—without damaging delicate ...

Medical illustrators and neurological imaging experts have figured out how night-hunting owls can almost fully rotate their heads -- by as much as 270 degrees in either direction -- without damaging ...

Owls don't need eyes in the back of their heads to see what's behind them — they can just swivel their heads all the way around. In fact, many owl species, such as the barred owl, can rotate their ...

Medical illustrators and neurological imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have figured out how night-hunting owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction - ...