Internal Compass Guides Glass Eels As They Swim, In Time with the Tides (11 of 15) (VIDEO)

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Glass eels, an early life stage of the European eel (Anguilla Anguilla). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 09, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Cresci at Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science in Miami, Fla., and colleagues was titled, "Glass eels (Anguilla Anguilla) have a magnetic compass linked to the tidal cycle."

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[Credit: Alessandro Cresci]

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