But, unlike humans, animals that travel long distances must rely on their own senses. And some of them have a long-range ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

The researchers used a new technique that relies on magnetic tomography — a way of visualizing the internal structures of ...

Every holiday season there is a mass migration of humans towards home and family. We use many tools to help us navigate back ...

In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than ...

The inner ear tissue in pigeons, which contains “cells with highly sensitive electric sensors,” resembles that of sharks, ...

Pigeons may sense Earth's magnetic field using special cells in the inner ear. This discovery explains how they navigate long ...

Ninety-seven-million-year-old magnetic fossils, left behind in sea beds by an unknown creature, may have been a biological ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic forces affect animals, including humans. Scientists ...

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