Sea turtles ‘dance’ when their superpower leads them to food
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.
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Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers
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 ...
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South Carolina Aquarium and Coast Guard release five Kemp’s ridley sea turtles into ocean
The South Carolina Aquarium, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard transported five endangered Kemp’s ridley ...
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Florida scientists help solve mystery of sea turtles' ‘lost years’ in Gulf
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 ...
Story of ‘survival’: Sea turtle found stranded a mile from the Gulf makes return home
A sea turtle that found itself stranded more than a mile from the ocean in November finally made its way back home. ...
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Sea turtle found stranded a mile from the Gulf makes return home
A sea turtle that found itself stranded more than a mile from the ocean in November finally made its way back home.
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Scientists have figured out what happens to sea turtles during their ‘lost years’
Challenges with tracking and data collection meant little was known previously about the lives of adolescent turtles ...
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Clearwater Marine Aquarium releases six rehabilitated sea turtles into Florida waters
Clearwater Marine Aquarium's rescue team released six rehabilitated sea turtles into warm Florida waters in the past month. "With some cold weather a few weeks ago up in the Panhandle, they got over 1 ...
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Researchers sound the alarm over unexpected threat to turtle survival: 'Warning bells go off in my head'
Female sea turtles crawl onto Florida's shores from March through October to lay their eggs. Each mother digs a two-foot hole in the sand and deposits about 110 soft, ping-pong-ball-size eggs before ...
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Tamil Nadu to set up Conservation Center at Point Calimere after over 1000 dead sea turtles washed ashore along East Coast
The mass death of Olive Ridley turtles, which form an essential part of the ecosystem in the ocean, in January triggered a major cause of concern with environmentalists seeking urgent action from ...
Irish Sun6d
‘Definitely a first’ – Rare and endangered green turtle nursed back to health after washing up on Irish beach
It is believed that the turtle is one of only two to ever wash up on Irish beaches and only the first to survive. Bev Truss was not expecting to spend Christmas nursing the rare turtle out of ...
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Dinosaur Train Submarine: A Sea Turtle Tale/Rocket Train
Our Pteranodon family is on the beach watching small eggs hatch and baby Archelon turtles emerge, and start to swim away ... With Tiny and Buddy on board, the "old" Dinosaur Train ends up helping out ...