Biophysicists in Germany are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky ...

THE fourth Victor Horsley Memorial Lecture was delivered on July 20 in the Medical School of University College Hospital by Prof. E. D. Adrian, who discussed the Visceral Sense Organs. The action of ...

LITTLE is definitely known from the physiological point of view of many of the sense organs of insects. Except in the case of the eyes and the tactile hairs, it is largely a matter of conjecture to ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...