Researchers discover first sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm a big clue to a long-held mystery about how animals’ internal compasses work.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-sensor-earth-magnetic-field-animal.html#jCp

Is a worm an animal? Geese?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Researchers discover first sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm a big clue to a long-held mystery about how animals’ internal compasses work.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-sensor-earth-magnetic-field-animal.html#jCp

Is a worm an animal? Geese?

If your question is serious, then yes a worm is an animal.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Researchers discover first sensor of Earth’s magnetic field in an animal

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny worm a big clue to a long-held mystery about how animals’ internal compasses work.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-sensor-earth-magnetic-field-animal.html#jCp

Is a worm an animal? Geese?

Huh! I think they’ve phrased that wrongly. Perhaps they meant to say “researchers discover a sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in the most primitive animal so far”.

Read the book “Supersense” for more information. I can’t remember all the details, but the ability of animals such as homing pigeons (not the bored old homing pigeons that follow roads) to find their way home by compass led to the discovery of tiny crystals of magnetite in the brains first of a few animals, and then dozens, including humans.

Later it was realised that in many animals the magnetite crystals were evolutionary relics that didn’t actually help them navigate. But that didn’t stop the discovery that some animals do use the magnetite crystals in their brain as tiny compasses.

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

dv said:

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

thanks

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

thanks

Remember: Animal, vegetable or mineral. Neither worms or geese, are vegetable or mineral

PermeateFree said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

thanks

Remember: Animal, vegetable or mineral. Neither worms or geese, are vegetable or mineral

Classifications have evolved a little. since those simplistic days.

jjjust moi said:

PermeateFree said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

thanks

Remember: Animal, vegetable or mineral. Neither worms or geese, are vegetable or mineral

Classifications have evolved a little. since those simplistic days.

Yeah, they have fungi now as well.

jjjust moi said:

PermeateFree said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

thanks

Remember: Animal, vegetable or mineral. Neither worms or geese, are vegetable or mineral

Classifications have evolved a little. since those simplistic days.

Sorry, I’ll correct my earlier statement to worms and geese are not a vegetable, mineral or a fungi. And by the way, they never were ‘classified’ as such, they have always used much longer words in official circles.

So why be surprised it was a worm?

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

thanks

No need to thank me. I live to serve.

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

A worm is an animal. Geese are also animals.

thanks

No need to thank me. I live to serve.

I’ll have a glass of water thanks?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

thanks

No need to thank me. I live to serve.

I’ll have a glass of water thanks?

It’s in the mail

roughbarked said:

dv said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

thanks

No need to thank me. I live to serve.

I’ll have a glass of water thanks?

Could I have some Scotch in mine please you waiter?

roughbarked said:

So why be surprised it was a worm?

I suppose worms use it to tell up from down when in the ground