High school students learn that Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The ...

It might sound like the stuff of eerie legends or old wives’ tales, but plenty of people swear they’ve seen […] ...

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 ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Contrary to the notion of pets being able to communicate with spirits, the concept of a sixth sense refers to an extraordinary ability beyond the conventional five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch ...

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

Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Trending News: Scientists are unraveling the mystery of magnetoreception, the ability of animals like birds and sea turtles to navigate using Earth's magnetic field.

OF the five ordinary senses recognised in ourselves and most higher animals, insects have, beyond all doubt, the sense of sight, and there can be as little question that they possess the senses of ...

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 ...

Why do snakes flick their tongues? Can snakes smell fear? Here are 10 amazing facts about rattlesnakes, flying snakes and other species.

Many animals possess vomeronasal organs specifically evolved to detect pheromones and other chemosignals that communicate emotional states. This chemical communication occurs below our conscious ...