celestial navigation
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They were the first invertebrates -- a broad group of animals including spiders, snails and worms -- shown to use celestial navigation for such long trips.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She also knows celestial navigation and how to plot a course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Other, broader impacts could affect life worldwide: the presence of satellites contributes to a background glow in the sky that can disorient animals that rely on celestial navigation.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2022
The head looks upward into the sky to symbolize celestial navigation, and the post celebrates past explorers who had ventured to the arrowroot-colored continent.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
You tell me to follow your rules of celestial navigation.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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