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 ...

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, ...

Loggerhead turtles are always on the move. Migrating thousands of miles over the course of their lifetimes, these sea turtles navigate according to Earth's magnetic field, which they sense through two ...

A performance of Moss Anthology#5 for Buglisi Dance Theatre (left). Ruby, an endangered Burmese roofed turtle who lives at a turtle sanctuary in New Jersey (right). Hisae Aihara/Martin Broen Get the ...

To juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, a tasty squid might as well be a disco ball. When they sense food—or even think some might be nearby—these reptiles break into an excited dance. They tilt their ...

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While the “turtle dance” is particularly charming, Goforth noted this behavior likely only occurs in captivity. However, the movement pattern provides a useful measure to show whether the turtles ...

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