All animals great and small live every day in an uncertain world. Whether you are a human being or an insect, you rely on your senses to help you navigate and survive in your world. But what drives ...

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

Unsurprisingly, animals move their sensory organs, such as eyes, ears and noses, while they are searching. Picture a cat swiveling its ears to capture important sounds without needing to move its ...

This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky water, to map its surroundings and recognize other animals. ... How broad is the operating range of such a sense organ, ...

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 ...

Some animals even have extra senses that we as humans don't have, like Monty here. Monty, like other snakes, has a special organ at the top of her mouth that can actually help her to basically ...

We cannot conclude from the mere presence of a sense-organ that the animal sees, hears, smells, or tastes in the same way as other animals having these same organs, and certainly not as the human ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m scratching my dog as we speak, and he is looking at me. But right in front of his eyes is his nose, which is his primary sense organ, the means through which he explores the world around him.

Light-sensing proteins are found throughout all domains of life. Even single-celled microbes carry proteins that respond to light. And animals have light-sensitive organs in a huge range of shapes ...