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Sea turtles navigate the ocean using the Earth's magnetic field, but until now, it was unknown if they could memorize new coordinates. In this study, baby sea turtles in a bowl were exposed to a ...

Well, what happens next in the turtles' lives - the juvenile years - that has been a bit more of a mystery. In fact, scientists call it the lost years. So researchers set out to catch baby turtles ...

Now, a new study is offering more insights into this advantageous behavior. Baby loggerhead turtles can identify specific magnetic signatures, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the ...

Are decades of work to save Kemp’s ridley sea turtles paying off yet? It’s a windy May morning on the Texas coast, and dancing sand nips my ankles as I cross an expanse of beach. I’m at Padre Island ...

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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 ...

Thanks to the teams’ quick intervention — including rescuing a hatchling from inside a crocodile’s throat — these tiny baby turtles lived to see another day. Crocodiles are predatory ...