You wouldn’t think a shark like a Hammerhead could see well, would you?Come on, look at the thing. With that distinctive head shape and one eye poking out each side, how can it possibly have binocular vision the way humans and other animals do?
Turns out it does, though.
When scientists got around to studying the issue and measured the visual fields, it turned out that Hammerhead sharks have a 182 degree field of view from each eye. This means their fields of view overlap, and in some types of hammerhead that overlap can be to 32 degrees.
This gives these sharks outstanding binocular vision, meaning excellent depth perception.
So as ugly as the Hammerhead shark looks, it has no trouble looking out for itself, so to speak.
