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Also, what the heck is a magnetofossil?

Magnetoreception enables animals to sense magnetic fields, which helps them navigate and orient themselves through the perception of location, direction or altitude. It’s been established that a ...

New research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a team of scientists from Japan reports observations of the first-ever documented biological ...

Two principal mechanisms for animal magnetoreception have been put forward (reviewed in ref. 1), based on specialized deposits of magnetic iron minerals and magnetically sensitive photochemical ...

Scientists now believe humans might possess a subtle ability to sense Earth's magnetic field, a trait previously thought exclusive to animals. Research indicates our brains and possibly eyes respond ...