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 ...

Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, ...

OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Kemp's ridley sea turtles, the smallest and most endangered sea turtle species in the world, were caught nesting at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These small sea turtles usually ...

Scientists have discovered a new reason for turtles to dance for joy: Loggerhead sea turtles seem able to discern and remember magnetic field signatures, which could help them find food. The Earth’s ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific ...

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