Researchers find active and passive touch activate different regions of the brain in mice, which may help these creatures better navigate their environments Though the sense of touch underlies how we ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when we’re a mile away from home) and an unbelievable sense of smell. But they ...

Though the sense of touch underlies how we and most other animals interact with the world around us, much remains unknown about how this sense is processed in the brain. Researchers from Heidelberg ...

Whether you’re a person, a bird, a bug, or a shark (like Jaws, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary), the world is throwing all sorts of information at us all the time. For any organism to be ...

Source: linascheel, Pixabay, free download. Sentience, the ability to feel, is all around us, and almost daily we learn of the amazing sensory capacities of nonhuman animals (animals), many of whom ...

The peacock mantis shrimp and our sense of color -- The spookfish and our dark vision -- The great gray owl and our sense of hearing -- The star-nosed mole and our sense of touch -- The common vampire ...