To juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, a tasty squid might as well be a disco ball. When they sense food—or even think some might be nearby—these reptiles break into an excited dance. They tilt ...

Loggerhead turtles are famous for their extraordinary migrations, guided by an internal magnetic map that enables them to determine their location by detecting variations in Earth's magnetic field.

In one study, published Wednesday in the Science journal Nature, a crew of dancing loggerhead sea turtles revealed more about how they learn to use magnetic fields. Researching these skills more ...

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 ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta ... exciting — we thought that the turtle compass did not have the right characteristics for chemical magnetoreception.

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 ...

Recently published findings from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrate that loggerhead sea turtles possess not just one, but two distinct mechanisms for sensing ...