Beaulderdash2000 t1_j1p9h2q wrote on December 26, 2022 at 7:43 AM Reply to comment by [deleted] in I recently learned that humans can smell rain / petrichor (ozone and geosmin) better than sharks smell blood, now considering we don't have any extra hyper specific olfactory organs like some other animals do, how do we achieve this level of detection? by Corvuscoraxaphro Its the smell of fresh rain specially that this study refers to. Not just water. But, the evolutionary advantage of being able.to smell rain on the wind, could have been very successful. Permalink Parent 32
Beaulderdash2000 t1_j1p9h2q wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I recently learned that humans can smell rain / petrichor (ozone and geosmin) better than sharks smell blood, now considering we don't have any extra hyper specific olfactory organs like some other animals do, how do we achieve this level of detection? by Corvuscoraxaphro
Its the smell of fresh rain specially that this study refers to. Not just water. But, the evolutionary advantage of being able.to smell rain on the wind, could have been very successful.