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

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

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 ...

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

"Buckley," the green sea turtle, was found in Dixie County in the middle of a rural dirt road. He has now returned to the ...

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

The number of sea turtles washing up on UK beaches has more than doubled in recent years, prompting the creation of the ...

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

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

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