These aquatic reptiles swim thousands of miles across the open ocean to return to the same foraging grounds and nesting sites ...

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

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, ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

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

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

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

Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific ...

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 ...