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 ...
Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.
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, ...
Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.
For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...
Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.
depicts a Hawksbill turtle with a baby turtle swimming beside it. It is at the main intersection in downtown Freeport. Sarah St George, acting chairman of GBPA and Port Group Ltd, said the ...
“We’ve had massive data gaps about the early baby to toddler life stages ... “What we’ve uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming,” said co-author Nathan Putman, an ecologist ...
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