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1 week agoHas birds' mysterious 'compass' organ been found at last?
The results appeared in the Science on 20 November . "This is probably the clearest demonstration of the neural pathways responsible for magnetic processing in any animal," says Eric Warrant, a sensory biology researcher at the University of Lund in Sweden. Studies have suggested that various animals, including turtles, trout and robins, can sense the direction and strength of magnetic fields, although the evidence has sometimes been contested - and the mechanisms have remained controversial.
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