Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

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 ...

A sea turtle was rescued and released back into the waters off Key West to the sound of supporter cheers.Luna,<a ...

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

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day ...

The sea turtle spent nearly three months recovering after being found stranded on a rural road. Now, it's back in the ocean ...

Challenges with tracking and data collection meant little was known previously about the lives of adolescent turtles ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and ...

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill researchers have found that captive loggerheads could be conditioned to “dance” by associating certain magnetic fields with being fed food.