Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

On land, snakes have extraordinarily strong senses of vision, smell, and hearing, which not only make them efficient predators, but also help them evade enemies as well. If you’ve ever noticed, it can ...

Humans didn’t discover the presence of infrared light until well into the 1800s, and it’s taken us significantly longer to ...

Scientists show that while neurons play the lead role in detecting sensory information, a second type of cell, the glial cell, pulls the strings behind the scenes. The findings, point to a mechanism ...

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 ...

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