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 ...

Scientists discover turtles use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, proving animals can ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Albrittain also told us, “Often, when sea turtles are cold stunned, their GI gets impacted, because everything stops moving ...

Rangers at the Mon Repos turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead turtles since the 1970s.