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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 ...

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.

When you consider, say, a salmon, or a pigeon, your first thought is probably not “Wow, I bet that guy is great at quantum ...

The world of perception is unique to each organism. Credit: Shutterstock Take a quick moment to think about your surroundings. Tune into your senses, and contemplate what’s happening around you. What ...

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

We talk about one of the earliest animal senses, – chemosensation — or our sense of taste and smell. We discuss how animals use these senses to explore their environment and communicate, and how that ...

The only true voyage -- Leaking sacks of chemicals : smells and tastes -- Endless ways of seeing : light -- Rurple, grurple, yurple : color -- The unwanted sense : pain -- So cool : heat -- A rough ...

Have you ever wondered why your dog takes such a long time to sniff a patch of grass? Or why flies buzz around so sporadically? It’s because most of what a creature actually senses is invisible to us.

It should be known that not every animal has eyes. Most animal species (especially invertebrates like nematodes, annelids, flatworms, sponges, etc.) do not have eyes. Estimates suggest only about ...