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You often come across remarkable stories of cats that have found their way home after days, weeks, or even months. This ...
An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study.
Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...
A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...
Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night sky to navigate, according to a new study.
Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...
It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, I am on the lookout for a telltale river of boulders that ...
Now, tiny nocturnal Australian insects have been found to use stars as a guiding compass during their long annual migration. Interestingly, the Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) is the first invertebrate ...
Several bird species, in addition to humans, have demonstrated they can use the stars to navigate great distances. And while ...