Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation
S olar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation, and Make Them More Likely to Strand Themselves There’s evidence that many different creatures use the Earth’s magnetism to navigate. That capability is called magnetoreception, and it allows organisms to sense magnetic fields, and to d erive their direction, altitude, and location from those fields. Scientists say there are two hypotheses to explain magnetoreception. Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation