Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their five senses to survive. Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to ...

Ed Yong, guest lecturer at the Natural History Museum of Utah, talks about his book, "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us," on Tuesday, March, 12, 2024.

In today’s busy world, we often forget how incredible the animal kingdom really is. Over millions of years, animals have evolved unique abilities that go far beyond what humans can do. While we rely ...

From snakes that use their tongues to “smell” to compound bug eyes that overwhelm human sight, visitors to Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation on April 18 got a chance to see how animals ...

A look back at some of the zoos Animal Atlas has visited and the special animals we've met, such as Cinder, the hairless chimpanzee at the St. Louis Zoo; Scooby, the mane-less lion at Branson Zoo and ...

Humans have sharp senses, which we use explore our environment. Vibrations in the air, light, and chemicals in our food and in the air give us the information we need to survive. But some animals have ...

Seeing the world is one of the most amazing animal adaptations. Different types of eyes give animals different types of vision, and in some cases they can be extraordinary. In this episode we take a ...

What animals, whether two-legged, four-legged or winged, can break the land speed/air speed of 30 miles per hour, the footspeed man has never reached. From the very fast: the cheetah, the horse, the ...

A panoramic look at some animal who have a special quality that other animals don’t including the extreme strength of the rhinoceros beetle, the shear size of the African elephant and the enormous ...