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

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

Five cold-stunned sea turtles are under the care of veterinarians at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.Volunteers, marine crews, and members of the Coast Guard rescued nearly 900 ...

Animal care experts at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher have been taking care of some new temporary residents that arrived this week.

The turtles emerged from eight to 10 different nests from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. The team housed the turtles in individual tanks with controlled water temperatures and a standard diet ...

Scientists have discovered that loggerhead sea turtles can learn and remember the unique magnetic signatures of different ...

COLUMN. Researchers have shown that juveniles just a few weeks old can learn and memorize the magnetic signatures of specific ...

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

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

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.