Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

Now, tiny nocturnal Australian insects have been found to use stars as a guiding compass during their long annual migration. Interestingly, the Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) is the first invertebrate ...

They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?