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

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, researchers looked for the seat of magnetoreception in all the obvious places: the eyes, the inner ear, the beak. A study just published in Science points somewhere none of them expected. The organ doing the magnetic navigation work in homing pigeons appears to be the liver. Iron […] The post How pigeons find their way home: the answer is a magnetic compass in the liver first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.