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

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 specific areas after long migrations.

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, ...

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

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

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

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching.

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

Deana Diane Gruner Deana Diane Gruner was born April 7, 1940 in Windsor, Colorado to Grace May and Leonard Hardwicke Roberts. On January 15, 2025 she joined her parents, her ...