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

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, new research finds.

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

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 ...

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

Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

Steve Irwin was on a crocodile-catching trip on Queensland's Burdekin River with his father when he discovered a rare species of turtle. It was later named "Elseya irwini," or Irwin's turtle, in his ...

Baby sea turtles make their way down to the sea on ... Dame Sophie Pascoe, retires from swimming ...