Drastic shifts in animal behavior like the glass eels’ fluctuating migration patterns can often be attributed to significant ...

However, there are many other forms of animal migration, including journeys between east and west, complex round-trips involving land and ocean, altitudinal journeys up and down mountains ...

Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and ... But daily vertical movements by zooplankton in the ocean—upward by night to seek food, downward by day to escape predators—can also be ...

A Proceedings of the Royal Society B study of 5,600 mammals found that two species will never return to dry land.

The arctic tern may look small and delicate, but these magnificent sea birds migrate further than any other animal on the planet. In a 30-year lifetime, a single tern can fly the same distance as ...

Animal magnetism One of the first concrete ... through many experiments that during their 8,000-mile migration around the Atlantic Ocean, young loggerhead sea turtles can detect not only the ...

It crosses the Indian ocean between ... These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal ...

When Stanford researchers began tracking a group of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, they were trying to answer a simple question about their migration pattern. Now, they've wound up generating far bigger ...

Loggerhead sea turtles are sentinels for changing oceans. In a new analysis covering nearly 30 years of data on turtle ...