No place like home: New theory for how salmon, sea turtles find their birthplace
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 20:35
in Biology & Nature
How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unraveled the secret.
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