For some creatures, the magnetic field that hugs our planet serves as a compass for navigation or orientation. Migratory birds, sea turtles and certain types of bacteria are counted among the species ...

Pigeons have long stunned scientists with their ability to cross unfamiliar landscapes and still find their way home, even when landmarks vanish and the sky is overcast. Researchers are now closing in ...

For most of modern science, humans were believed to lack any ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field. Magnetoreception was considered a specialised adaptation found in migratory birds, sea turtles, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The homing pigeons in this study were trained to fly 12.4 miles back to their aviary. For decades, scientists have known that ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are ...

What do birds and bees, worms and wolves, fruit flies and fish all have in common? The answer: a magnetic sense that helps them navigate. Now it seems we might do as well. Joseph Kirschvink at the ...

“There is no such thing as ‘extra-sensory perception.’ What we have shown is this is a proper sensory system in humans, just like it is in many animals.” Reading time 5 minutes The ability to sense ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pigeons sense the Earth's magnetic pull via immune cells in their liver, a new study says. Andreas Teichmann, laif/Redux Pigeons ...