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Nearly blind mole rats use their eyes to detect magnetic fields – Trading U
By Donna Lu Ansell’s mole rats may detect magnetic fields with a receptor in their eyesblickwinkel / AlamyCertain mammals are able to detect magnetic
By Donna Lu
Ansells mole rats may detect magnetic fields with a receptor in their eyes
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Certain mammals are able to detect magnetic fields, but where exactly the sense originates from has long remained elusive. Now, the organ that houses magnetic sensors in mole rats has been identified.
Kai Caspar at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, and his colleagues have found that the Ansells mole rat (Fukomys anselli) uses its eyes for magnetoreception.
This species of m…
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