Sea Turtle, Dancing Baby

Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers
These aquatic reptiles swim thousands of miles across the open ocean to return to the same foraging grounds and nesting sites. They don’t always take the shortest, most direct route, but they do eventually get to where they’re going.
Scientists investigated a mystery of the sea. They found dancing turtles.
Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.
Sea turtles ‘dance’ when their superpower leads them to food
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 Dance to Orientate With Earth's Magnetic Field, Study Reveals
Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, scientists said Wednesday.
Where young sea turtles spend their early lives has always been a mystery - until now
Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.
Watch baby sea turtles do a happy dance (video)
Loggerhead sea turtles do an excited "turtle dance" when anticipating food. It's adorable, of course, but it has also allowed scientists to understand better how the turtles navigate. Scientists have theorized that sea turtles memorize coordinates to navigate using a magnetic "map.
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Sea turtles shown to use magnetic ‘map’ to navigate ocean
Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic “map” in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That’s according to new research published ...
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How sea turtles use Earth’s magnetic field as a GPS for precise ocean journeys
Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.
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Sea turtle found stranded a mile from the Gulf makes return home
A sea turtle that found itself stranded more than a mile from the ocean in November finally made its way back home.
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Sea turtles show signs of recovery, but conservation issues remain
Sea turtle populations are rising thanks to conservation efforts, but climate change and habitat loss still threaten their ...
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Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles’ ‘lost years’
eventually tagging 114 animals – including endangered green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbills and Kemp’s ridleys. This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle with a ...
Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...