These aquatic reptiles swim thousands of miles across the open ocean to return to the same foraging grounds and nesting sites ...

Loggerhead sea turtles do an excited "turtle dance" when anticipating food. It's adorable, of course, but it has also allowed ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Female sea turtles lay their eggs on Florida beaches to protect their offspring. But stronger hurricanes are now threatening ...

Some 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles, also known as tracajás, have been released into the Igapó-Açu River, in Brazil. The threatened species lives in river basins in northern South America ...