Even creatures that live underwater, like sharks, are known to have a strong sense of smell. Sharks can detect scents that ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when we’re a mile away from home) and an unbelievable sense of smell. But they ...

Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing – these are the senses we’re probably all familiar with. But we humans may not be ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...

In Khao Lak, 50 miles north of Phuket along Thailand's western coast, a dozen elephants giving tourists rides began trumpeting hours before the Dec. 26 tsunami -- about the time the 9.0-magnitude ...

Sublittoral Macoma balthica (L.) (14 mm size class) from the Southern coast of Finland (6 ‰ S) has smaller inhalant siphon (0.8 mg as dry weight) than intertidal M. balthica in England (4 mg, ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...