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’ in magnetic fields associated with food, new study finds
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.
Solving deep-sea mystery: UCF scientists help find sea turtles’ ‘lost years’
For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave the beach and when they return to coastlines nearly grown — a span of
The Surprising Importance of This Adorable Sea Turtle Dance
Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots
These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack
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 sites.
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.
Story of ‘survival’: 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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UCF researchers advance knowledge about juvenile sea turtle’s early life stage, informing conservation efforts
In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal ...
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Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles’ ‘lost years’
“It’s not that the sea turtles were ever lost ... Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible ...