A leatherback sea turtle pauses for air on its long migration. Connie Merigo (NMFS Permit #1557-03), CC BY-NC-ND Imagine yourself swimming in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic. The color blue dominates ...
An extraordinary internal compass allows sea turtles to seek out the beaches where they hatched across thousands of mile of ocean, a study suggests. The turtles achieve their feat of navigation by ...
Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) make one of the longest and most amazing migrations in the animal kingdom. In the previous installment, I looked at how the journey begins, with hatchlings ...
If you see tracks in the sand, know that they belong to a sea turtle who just returned from months of swimming hundreds or even thousands of miles. Although May 1 is the official sea turtle nesting ...
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 Nature, ...
A new study shows that simulating a clock shift of six hours causes hatchling Blanding's turtles to shift their course, demonstrating that the sun is central to their navigational compass. Blanding's ...
Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) make one of the longest and most amazing migrations in the animal kingdom. In the previous installment, I looked at how the journey begins, with hatchlings ...
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