If you liked this story, share it with other people. Migration patterns, natal homing, and daily activities by animals all require significant navigation capacities. In Nature’s Compass: The Mystery ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats ...

Could a new identified protein be responsible for animals’ sense of direction and their ability to find their way around? Scientists from Peking University thought so. They discovered tiny biological ...

Navigating: problems and strategies -- When and where -- A matter of time -- Insect compasses -- Vertebrate compasses -- Piloting and inertial navigation -- The map sense -- Migration and the future: ...

is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host. Picture yourself exiting a subway car. You step onto the platform and for a moment, you’re completely disoriented. It feels ...

Quick – can you tell where north is? Animals as diverse as sea turtles, birds, worms, butterflies and wolves can, thanks to sensing Earth’s magnetic field. But the magnet-sensing structures inside ...