Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...
Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.
Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, ...
“What we’ve uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming,” said co-author Nathan Putman, an ecologist at LGL ...
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...
“What we’ve uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming,” said co-author Nathan Putman, an ecologist at LGL Ecological Research Associates in Texas. The scientists confirmed this by ...