Wild Hypothesis Says Animals Sense Magnetic Fields Thanks to Microbes in Their Bodies – ScienceAlert

We don’t know exactly how they do it, we just know it’s an amazing gift. For decades, evidence has shown that all sorts of animals can sense magnetic fields and even use them to navigate their way around the planet.
This mysterious ability, called magnetoreception, is something that helps animals to make long-haul migrations, or even just find their way home, and it’s a sense that’s apparent in numerous species, whether feathered, furry, or finned.
As for humans, well, we might also have the c…

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