Migrating animals may imprint on a magnetic signature

December 2nd, 2008 By Wade Rawlins

One of nature's enchanting mysteries is how marine animals such as sea turtles and salmon cross thousands of miles of ocean but still find their way back to their birthplaces to reproduce.

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