A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that ...

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

The islet of Marathonisi in Laganas Bay, known as "Turtle Island," is included in the Marine Park of Zakynthos ...

Rangers at the Mon Repos turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead turtles since the 1970s.