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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

These animals have evolved to minimize the energy ... other species of penguins and migrating sea turtles from other populations. What we discovered was a remarkable similarity in relative swim ...

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