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Strange Eye Proteins Allow Birds to Actually See Earth's Magnetic Field

Two new studies by Universities in Sweden and Germany show evidence that birds navigate by literally seeing Earth’s magnetic field in their vision, thanks to eye proteins called cryptochromes, which might operate through a mechanism called magnetoreception. By Sequoyah Kennedy.

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