Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when ...

Humans have five senses, first assigned by philosopher Aristotle: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. But the list is much longer when it comes to senses across species. We’re not talking about ...

We might have big brains and fancy gadgets, but some animals are wired with senses straight out of a sci-fi script. We're talking about abilities that go way beyond sight, sound, taste, touch, and ...

Monty, like other snakes, has a special organ at the top of her mouth that can actually help her to basically smell the air around her. Now let's go meet some more animals with extra special senses.

Animals possess remarkable sensory abilities that far exceed human capabilities, enabling them to thrive in diverse environments. From the star-nosed mole's tactile foraging to the eagle's ...

There are animals with sharper senses of sight, sound, or smell ... of their own movements while also detecting the movements of nearby predators or prey. Pit organs appear on a shark’s body in places ...

For Ball, senses are just one way into a wide-horizoned exploration that begins with animal minds and cuts a course through consciousness, artificial intelligence, extraterrestrials, and free will.

A Massachusetts-based company announced Wednesday that it has kept a monkey alive for two years with a pig kidney, the longest an animal has survived with an organ from a different animal. The ...

However, the genetic survey only compared 13 mammal species and did not include bears, who are anecdotally known to have a powerful sense of smell. Another measure of an animal's smelling ability may ...

Scientists are optimistic that gene-edited animals could provide a new source of organs for transplantation. Pig organs modified to minimize rejection are now being tested in humans.

Crash Course Zoology: Episode 8: Ancestral & Weird Senses We talk about one of the earliest animal senses, – chemosensation — or our sense of taste and smell.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The ghostly form floating in a large jar had been the robust reddish-brown of a healthy organ just hours before. Now it's semitranslucent, white tubes like branches on a ...