These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack
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 sites. Sea turtles can travel these distances by remembering the magnetic signatures of an area and storing that knowledge in a mental map.
The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that in addition to daily nesting surveys from April through ...
Seventeen green sea turtles disoriented by winter storms last month are recovering in Palm Beach County. The animals, found ...
The islet of Marathonisi in Laganas Bay, known as "Turtle Island," is included in the Marine Park of Zakynthos ...
Sea turtle populations are rising thanks to conservation efforts, but climate change and habitat loss still threaten their ...
It was a tough year for threatened sea turtles on Fort Myers Beach, whose nests experienced significant hardships from three ...
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Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the worldThe turtle dance is a strange pattern of behaviour that emerges quickly in young captive sea turtles when they figure out ...
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