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The ability to perceive Earth's magnetic field, which at one time was dismissed as a physical impossibility, is now known to exist in diverse animals. The receptors for the magnetic sense remain elusive. But it seems that at least two underlying mechanisms exist — sometimes in the same organism.

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1. Kenneth J. Lohmann is in the Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA. klohmann@email.unc.edu,
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Lohmann, K. Magnetic-field perception.Nature 464, 1140–1142 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641140a

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• Published: 21 April 2010
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