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

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

In the study off Florida's West Coast, researchers with the University of Central Florida's Marine Turtle Research Group tracked the movements of four species of wild-caught juvenile sea turtles ...

However, the movement pattern provides a useful measure to show whether the turtles learned the magnetic field and correlated it to food. After the initial experiment, the scientists tested 16 ...