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

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

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

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

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

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.

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, ...

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives. “We’ve had massive data gaps about the early baby to toddler life ...

Townsville City Council has set up an amber light tower in an innovative lighting trial to help turtle hatchlings find their ...

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