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 nesting ...
A 1-degree-Celsius change in water temperature prompts sea turtles in Northern Cyprus to lay eggs nearly a week earlier on average.
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.
Heartbreaking new images have highlighted the devastating impact of Earth's plastic pollution. Scientists analysing the guts of dead sea turtles in the Mediterranean discovered hundreds of plastic ...
Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots ...
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Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations ... Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images/FILE Turtles can detect all Earth-strength magnetic fields, ranging from around 25,000 nanoteslas to ...