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 ...

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

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

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, ...

Scientists discover turtles use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, proving animals can ...

Sea turtles, it appears ... Barefoot men perform an odd step dance, bouncing gingerly heel to toe, feeling for loose earth with their feet. Finding some, they squat and dig until they reach ...

But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle released with a satellite tag swimming in ...

As the audience cooed over the sea turtles and snapped photos and videos, staff and volunteers carried the marine reptiles down a path between two crowds, like a soul train line, to the sea.

They start their journey on sandy shores, scuttling toward the waves at barely a few inches long. Some people assume these little sea turtles vanish after that, drifting in the open water for years ...