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Nearly blind mole rats use their eyes to detect magnetic fields
Environment 30 September 2020 By Donna Lu Ansell’s mole rats may detect magnetic fields with a receptor in their eyesblickwinkel / AlamyCertain mammals are able to detect magnetic fields, but where the sense originates from has long remained elusive. Now, the organ that houses magnetic sensors in mole rats has been identified. Kai Caspar at…
Environment
30 September 2020
By Donna Lu
blickwinkel / Alamy
Certain mammals are able to detect magnetic fields, but where 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 Ansell’s mole rat (Fukomys anselli) uses its eyes for magnetoreception.
This species of mole rat, known for digging long, subterranean tunnels, has poor eyesight and tiny – but structurally intact – eyes. “They do not …
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