Even in darkness, many animals retain a sense of orientation because their nervous system sustains a memory of heading ...

New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field.

Scientists combined a mirror experiment simulating a different direction of the setting sun and a new test procedure to measure orientation behavior in bats to understand the role of the sun's ...

It is known that night-migratory songbirds use a magnetic compass measuring the magnetic inclination angle, i.e. the angle between the Earth’s surface and the magnetic field lines, but how do such ...

The magnetic compass that birds use for orientation is affected by polarized light. The magnetic compass that birds use for orientation is affected by polarised light. This previously unknown ...