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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution ...

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 ...