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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even buried in the ocean floor, fish may not stand a chance against a hungry bottlenose dolphin. Dolphins have keen vision, an exceptional sense of hearing—and they can sense electric fields emitted ...

Dolly and Donna, two dolphins at the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany, appear to be able to sense electric fields — an ability that might help them detect prey buried in sand or enhance their navigation. All ...