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Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...
It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...
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A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its ...
A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass.
Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s ...
Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...
A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...
Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, ...
Scientists found that an Australian moth navigates using a celestial compass, possibly guided by the Milky Way itself.
Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...
Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.