WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that ...

Talk about nature's most eccentric experiment, and you have the platypus, a mammal that lays eggs, secretes venom, and uses electroreception to hunt underwater. This Australian oddity, which fuses ...

The list includes electroreception or the biological ability of a person to detect electrical stimuli, chronoception or the ability to gauge how much time has passed even without looking at the ...

Their improved vision and electroreception abilities make them adept hunters in the vast oceanic expanse. Hammerhead shark in the aquarium. The great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) is the largest ...

The findings suggest that prey can use electroreception to detect predators—a phenomenon that may be widespread among terrestrial animals.

The 7th is the ability to detect electric fields. This is a sense we don’t have. The electroreception and magnetism are detected through the ampullae of Lorenzini which are located in the shark’s ...

Several animals possess what could be considered a “sixth sense” or extraordinary sensory abilities that go beyond the traditional five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell known to ...

Many sensory systems are more commonly known than others, but all are critical for survival. These include those senses typically described by Aristotle around 300–400 Before the Common Era (BCE), ...

Recent research by Bowling Green State University scientists has sent shockwaves through the bird-watching world after ...