How’s Your Sense of Smell?

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It’s always been said that humans have no sense of smell, but recent studies find that our noses can pick up an impressive trillion or more odors. Wouldn’t it be great if they were all beautiful fragrances with no “bad” odors? The eyes can only pick out about 10 million colors, so it seems our sense of smell really outdoes it!

Animals and people have a different amount of smell receptors. People have 40 million smell receptors, a dog as many as 2 billion but a bear’s sense of smell is seven times stronger than a bloodhound’s. They use that sense …read more