The first sense to evolve in the first animals was chemoreception. It means being able to detect chemicals in the animal’s environment. This helps animals find prey and mates, and to sense predators ...

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 ...

We learn that there are five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste). And we say that there is the “sixth sense,” meaning intuition or a hunch. But there is a physiological seventh sense that ...

Imagine that you take a walk around your yard or nearby park and, immediately, the sounds of an insect orchestra surround you. Produced by the muscular movements of sap-feeding insects called ...

Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - those are senses through which most humans experience the world. But a large swath of the animal world perceives the world in radically different ways, like fish ...

We learn that there are five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste). And we say that there is the “sixth sense,” meaning intuition or a hunch. But there is a physiological seventh sense that ...