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🔬 Science June 08, 2026 at 12:00 AM

How pigeons find their way home: the answer is a magnetic compass in the liver

Source: The Optimist Daily

Scientists have discovered that homing pigeons use a magnetic compass located in their liver to navigate, solving a long-standing mystery in animal magnetoreception.

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