Join Peninsula Open Space Trust for a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong, author of the New York Times bestseller An Immense World. With wit, humor, and stunning ...

Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their five senses to survive. Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to ...

In January of 2024, the SciFri Book Club read “An Immense World” by Ed Yong. Luckily, there is also a young readers edition, so you can explore these incredible sensory worlds as well! In this book, ...

I don’t have to tell you that dogs are amazing animals!

I'm always in the market for books and essays that explain how diverse nonhuman animals (animals) live in our world and in their own. I recently read an outstanding and highly readable book by ...

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 ...

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 ...

By examining the tracks of an animal, Zekun and his colleague Tianyun Shi can infer how well developed its senses were. "If an animal has a limited ability to sense its environment, it only gets ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, ...

With wit, humor, and stunning visuals, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and New York Times bestselling author Ed Yong will share the amazing ways in which animals perceive aspects of the world ...

Seeing the world is one of the most amazing animal adaptations. Different types of eyes give animals different types of vision, and in some cases they can be extraordinary.