The shocking facts revealed: how sharks and other animals evolved electroreception to find their prey
- Written by: Benedict King, PhD candidate in vertebrate palaeontology, Flinders University
Today's sharks are known to use electroreception to find their prey.Shutterstock/solarseven
Many creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery.
Our new paper, published this week in the journal Palaeontology, details how this...