The experiment was the first to provide strong evidence that a sea turtle could learn to associate a magnetic field with food, she said. In the ocean, successful foraging may prompt a turtle to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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