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

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

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

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 ...

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

Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

Five endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles had quite the adventure this week after a US Coast Guard crew from sector Charleston assisted with their release back into the ...

After Hurricane Helene, Echo, a sea turtle found in freshwater, is being rehabilitated at the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab. Learn ...

"Buckley," the green sea turtle, was found in Dixie County in the middle of a rural dirt road. He has now returned to the ...