We all know that sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell are the five human senses, but really they’re just the beginning. There are things like proprioception, the sense of orienting your body in space ...

Benedict King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense ...

Legend has it that as the waves carried the Hawai'ian shark god Kauhuhu to his cave at the base of a cliff on Molokai, his senses told him there was a stranger hiding nearby. "I smell a man!" he ...

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the ...

Sharks, as well as a number of other living primitive fishes, have the amazing ability to detect electric fields in their surroundings. This characteristic -- called electroreception--is thought to be ...

Caterpillars have a sixth sense that most land-based animals do not. They can sense electric fields around them with small bristles called setae on its body — a feat called electroreception. British ...

Bottlenose dolphins are able to use pits on the face to sense electric fields, according to new research, a skill that can help them forage for fish buried deep in sediment and potentially navigate ...

New research involving trained zoo dolphins seems to confirm these aquatic mammals can feel electric fields, though some might be better at it than others. Reading time 3 minutes It looks like ...

From the ultra-high frequency hearing of the Greater Wax Moth to the polarized light-detecting eyes of mantis shrimp, evolution by natural selection has produced a spectacular array of sensory ...

Some senses go beyond human perception. These animals have incredible senses that humans don’t have. Humans have sophisticated senses that have been well-developed over time. We have an excellent ...

Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects. Alchisme grossa (Hemiptera: ...