While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...

Contrary to the notion of pets being able to communicate with spirits, the concept of a sixth sense refers to an ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when ...

The analysis revealed that the bolder hermit crabs have more sensilla located on the claw’s surface. Additionally, more ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

If you have ever looked closely into a rockpool along the U.K. coastline, you may have been lucky enough to find a tiny ...

There are animals with sharper senses of sight, sound, or smell ... of their own movements while also detecting the movements ...

Why do snakes flick their tongues? Can snakes smell fear? Here are 10 amazing facts about rattlesnakes, flying snakes and ...

The research also showed that structures considered to be teeth in fossils from the Cambrian period, about 485-540 million years ago, were similar to features in the armor of fossil invertebrates, as ...

The study surmises that those ancient, armored fish used dentin-based detectors to help survey conditions in their watery environments. They also suggest that these devices resemble the sensory organs ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago ...