The Magnetic Sense: How Birds and Fish Navigate Using the Earth?s Magnetic Field

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Researchers at Germany’s Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have*discovered*the mechanism by which fish and birds use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Researchers have long suspected that fish and birds*navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field, but the exact mechanism has proven difficult to*isolate until now. The researchers identified*magnetite-based magnetoreceptor cells in trout olfactory*tissue that visibly [...]

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