A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

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One of the most taken-for-granted pieces of equipment on a boat is the magnetic compass. The compass is the basic navigational instrument aboard a boat, especially when out of sight of land.

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass ...

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Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

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