Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...

(Arterra Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo) Migration can happen around the world at any time. But it's most common for animals to migrate when the seasons and weather conditions change.

Aa Aa Aa Many animals migrate, and the distance they cover ranges from a few centimeters to thousands of kilometers; some may even cross the entire globe (Dingle 1996). Tracking migrating ...

Some animals that migrate across the globe -- such as birds, salmon, lobsters and sea turtles -- are known to navigate using the magnetic field lines that stretch from Earth's north to south pole.

and animals would be able to use those quite well for migration. So as I watched that leatherback in Costa Rica use her oar-like front flippers to expertly disguise her newly laid nest with sand ...

Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how several fish species and marine animals are changing their migration patterns ...