Every year, migratory birds travel thousands of kilometres across landscapes they may never have encountered before, yet many can maintain remarkably consistent directions. Scientists have long known ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an ...

A quiet field can look completely ordinary until you notice the pattern. Many cows and deer seem to rest or graze with their bodies lined up roughly north-south. That odd detail first drew serious ...