WHEN the ampullæ of Lorenzini were first studied experimentally (see ref. 1), they were considered to be sensitive to mechanical stimuli like the other organs of the acoustico-lateralis system.

The Ampullae of Lorenzini exhibits extremely high proton conductivity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS.

Great hammerhead sharks prefer shallow waters and are ... In addition, they have a group of sensory organs called the ...

These fields are detected by special sensory organs called the ampullae of Lorenzini, which are largely concentrated around the shark’s head. In hammerhead sharks, these organs are spread all ...