New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal. After a magnetic pulse briefly disrupted ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn’t clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they ...