Title:
Animals' magnetic 'sixth' sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests
By:
University of Central Florida
Published:
Phys.org, 14 September 2020
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-animals-magnetic-sixth-bacteria-paper.html
From the article:
* A University of Central Florida researcher is co-author of a new paper that may help answer why some animals have a magnetic 'sixth' sense, such as sea turtles' ability to return to the beach where they were born.
* Fitak and researchers in the United Kingdom and Israel recently authored an article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that proposes a hypothesis that the magnetic sense comes from a symbiotic relationship with magnetotactic bacteria.