Platypus (Electroreception)
The duck-billed platypus, along with echidnas (ant-eaters), is the only mammal that can lay eggs.
Bats (Echolocation)
Since they are typically active at night, they use echolocation to search for food, locate any changes in their flight, and find their way in the dark.
Snakes (Infrared Radiation Detection)
Snakes have this so-called sixth sense. Vipers, pythons, and boas can still accurately find their way through the dark.
Octopus (Polarized Vision)
Aside from its flexible physique with eight powerful tentacles, the octopus is one of the unique animals because of its incredible sense of sight.
Catfish (Sense of Taste)
Apparently, this fish with cat-like whiskers has up to 175,000 taste-sensitive cells (compared to an average person with only 10,000 taste buds) in its entire body.
African Bush Elephant (Sense of Smell)
African bush elephants got double the amount of smell-sensing genes from their ancestors during species division
Jewel Beetles (Detect Presence of Fire)
This tiny creature can smell and detect a burning pine tree that is ten miles away.
Cavefish (Sense of Hearing)
Cavefish live in a relatively pitch-black environment. It's sense of hearing is substantially sensitive as it can detect even the slightest noise at 1 kHz.
Bees (Sense of Earth’s Magnetic Field)
They can also detect atmospheric electromagnetic waves that indicate thunderstorms.
Spiders (Sensitive To Touch)
By having massive numbers of hairs on their legs, they can detect and trace the origin of a vibration created by an object or another animal.
Mantis Shrimp (Complex Visual System)
Known to have the most complex visual system in the animal kingdom, mantis shrimps have 16 types of photoreceptors (light detectors) that can detect visible and ultraviolet (UV) light.