We all know that sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell are the five human senses, but really they’re just the beginning. There are things like proprioception, the sense of orienting your body in space ...

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the ...

New research involving trained zoo dolphins seems to confirm these aquatic mammals can feel electric fields, though some might be better at it than others. Reading time 3 minutes It looks like ...

Bottlenose dolphins are able to use pits on the face to sense electric fields, according to new research, a skill that can help them forage for fish buried deep in sediment and potentially navigate ...

Benedict King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense ...

Caterpillars have a sixth sense that most land-based animals do not. They can sense electric fields around them with small bristles called setae on its body — a feat called electroreception. British ...

To snap up fish, bottlenosed dolphins may rely on more than just sharp sight and sonar detection. The creatures might also pick up on the weak electric pulses prey produce each time their hearts beat ...

Sharks, as well as a number of other living primitive fishes, have the amazing ability to detect electric fields in their surroundings. This characteristic -- called electroreception--is thought to be ...