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Pigeons Rely on the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate. Now, Researchers May Have Uncovered How They Do It
In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than ...
In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was among the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sense. His ...
Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...
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Scientists show turtles sense Earth’s magnetic map
New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...
Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance ...
The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...
When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...
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