These aquatic reptiles swim thousands of miles across the open ocean to return to the same foraging grounds and nesting sites ...

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

Loggerhead sea turtles do an excited "turtle dance" when anticipating food. It's adorable, of course, but it has also allowed ...

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

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching.

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

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

In the ocean, successful foraging may prompt ... "We’ve had massive data gaps about the early baby to toddler life stages of sea turtles,” said Kate Mansfield, a marine scientist at the ...

Baby sea turtles seem to respond to information present ... over how animals might use the magnetic field to traverse the ocean, land and skies and map them. “These results provide some strong ...