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From crocodiles and penguins to seals and whales, this comprehensive and authoritative synthesis explores the function and evolution of sensory systems in animals whose ancestors lived on land. Together, the contributors explore the dramatic transformation of smell, taste, sight, hearing, balance, mechanoreception, magnetoreception, and electroreception that occurred as lineages of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals returned to aquatic environments. Each chapter integrates data from fields including sensory physiology, anatomy, paleontology, and neurobiology. A one-stop source for information on the sense organs of secondarily aquatic tetrapods, Sensory Evolution on the Threshold sheds new light on both the evolution of aquatic vertebrates and the sensory biology of their astonishing transition.

Aquatic animals --- Sense organs --- Sense organs. --- Adaptation. --- Evolution. --- adapting to their environment. --- anatomy. --- animal senses. --- animal sensory systems. --- astonishing transition. --- botany and ecology. --- crocodiles. --- electroreception. --- evolutionary adaptation. --- magnetoreception. --- mechanoreception. --- natural sciences. --- neurobiology. --- penguins. --- physiology. --- seals. --- sens organs. --- sensory biology. --- theory of evolution. --- whales.