Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski go beyond the limits of human perception to explore the extraordinary and surprising world of animal senses.

Nova: Inside Animal Minds - Dogs & Super Senses (9pm, UNC-TV) - This “Nova” special looks at how animals use their senses, including the differences between wolves and dogs in how they interpret ...

Dogs help humans in many tasks, but their original role in hunter-gatherer societies was as a sensory aid in finding prey animals. Newly found sensory abilities include heat mapping by the nose, as ...

Whether you’re a person, a bird, a bug, or a shark (like Jaws, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary), the world is throwing all sorts of information at us all the time. For any organism to be ...

Imagine that you're in a comfortable room with your cat. You're both sharing the same space, temperature and lighting. But while you're enjoying the décor, and perhaps a book or the taste of hot ...

Mammals, primates and birds; animals have evolved powerful senses to perceive their environment; these developed senses can turn mechanical waves, airborne particles, and photons into information that ...