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 ...

Many animals must travel great distances across land, air and sea to meet their ecological needs. This phenomenon is called migration, defined as the "seasonal movement of animals from one habitat ...

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 ...

half of the world’s 4,000 animal species are migrating toward more habitable regions. From polar bears to purple emperor butterflies, from green sea turtles to mountain gorillas and African ...

They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

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 ...

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 ...

Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how ...