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 ...

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.

Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations ... Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images/FILE Turtles can detect all Earth-strength magnetic fields, ranging from around 25,000 nanoteslas to ...

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

showed young turtles are active swimmers during their early lives rather than passive drifters. "We’ve had massive data gaps about the early baby to toddler life stages of sea turtles,” said ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

Baby sea turtles seem to respond to information present in the magnetic field from the very beginning of their lives, they added. The researchers studied turtles in two laboratory environments ...

“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 University of Central Florida. “This part of their ...