Loggerhead turtles learn magnetic signatures for navigation and feeding, showcasing two distinct geomagnetic senses for migration, study finds.

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

Loggerhead turtles navigate using magnetic fields, and new research has revealed more about this remarkable ability.

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that ...

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

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

This week, see what makes loggerhead sea turtles “dance,” track a cosmic “ghost particle,” uncover an ancient basilica, and more.

The number of sea turtles washing up on UK beaches has more than doubled in recent years, prompting the creation of the ...

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 ...

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

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...