Loggerhead turtles can identify specific magnetic signatures, according to a new study, hinting at how the aquatic reptiles manage to return to the same foraging and nesting sites over and over again ...

This new research provides the first concrete evidence that loggerhead turtles hone this remarkable ability. This superpower ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered sea turtles can learn and remember specific magnetic field signatures of geographic ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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