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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 a century. He speculated that birds and other animals could navigate with ...
Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...
Pigeons can sense Earth’s magnetic field by detecting tiny electric currents in their inner ears, a team of researchers suggests. Such an inner compass could help to explain how certain animals can ...
Indoor navigation on your smartphone, using the Earth's magnetic field -- just like a pigeon Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland has created an indoor positioning system (IPS) that uses ...
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