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 ...

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the University of Bristol, has found that hummingbird flower mites use hummingbirds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects. Alchisme grossa (Hemiptera: ...

Bottlenose dolphins possess impressive senses, not least of which is their bat-like ability to echolocate — or blast soundwaves to detect prey and other objects. Dolphins are also known for their ...

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 ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...