Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the ...

A trio of books argue that we should spend more time understanding the creatures around us. The emerald jewel wasp’s unusual arrival into the world—bursting from the body of a zombified cockroach it ...

Dogs do see color. Naked mole rats are oblivious to pain. The first insects couldn’t hear a thing, instead relying on small organs in their joints to sense things moving around them. I spoke with Yong ...

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 ...

All animals, human and nonhuman alike, experience the world through the perceptive lens of their senses: seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling. But we humans often fail to take in just how different ...

Animals have developed extraordinary senses that allow them to master their environments in ways that seem almost otherworldly. These superpowered abilities, far surpassing human limitations, help ...

The following text is an AI-generated, expert-checked summary of a key research study cited in a feature article from Scientific American’s May 2023 issue: Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create ...