Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery. Our new paper, published this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All right, everybody, say hello to Dolly and Donna. (SOUNDBITE OF DOLPHINS VOCALIZING) SHAPIRO: If you couldn't tell, Dolly and Donna are bottlenose dolphins, and they live at the Nuremberg Zoo in ...

Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery. Our new paper, published this ...