Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish - Discovery Institute

What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals.

Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever heard of the lateral line? No, its not a football play. Its a sense organ shared by most fish, from sharks to… [+7478 chars]

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