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You’ve likely heard of seasonal migration, where certain animals move from one location to another depending on external factors like weather. However, did you know there’s a form of migration that ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have traced the genetic changes that allowed animals to colonize land not once but at least 11 separate times across the tree of life, finding that distantly ...

A white stork flies in Germany, where researchers tracked the birds’ migrations and concluded that they incrementally straighten their migration routes to find more direct ways to move between ...

For animals that weigh more than a tonne, the difficulty of staying cool while travelling over long distances is the key limiting factor for their speed, regardless of whether they run, swim or fly, ...