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55M Monarchs Can't Be Wrong

Internal clock of 1-ounce butterfly sheds light on human sense of time

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Feb 11, 2008 4:58 PM CST

(Newser) – The 1-ounce monarch butterfly may have a thing or two to teach us: Each year, some 55 million monarchs make a 4,000-mile multigenerational journey from Canada to Mexico, returning to the same forest, often the same tree, without relying on GPS. How? The insects...   Read full story »

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