
The Amazing Pigeon Techno-Beak
March 15, 2007
How do homing pigeons find home? Scientists at University of Frankfurt may have found the answer: magnetic minerals in their beaks. A press release from Springer Publications describes the amazing pigeon techno-beak: In histological and physicochemical examinations in collaboration with HASYLAB, the synchrotron laboratories based in Hamburg, Germany, iron-containing subcellular particles of maghemite and magnetite […]