Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

The islet of Marathonisi in Laganas Bay, known as "Turtle Island," is included in the Marine Park of Zakynthos ...

Analysis of the fossil skin of a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur revealed that it had a mixture of smooth and scaly skin.

The leatherback sea turtle, the largest of all living turtles, is a remarkable marine animal whose long, slow-motion journey ...

Further to the legal implications, Tennant is warning that consuming turtle meat can have dire consequences. He pointed to a ...

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

After tagging olive ridley turtles with flipper tags on the beaches of Ratnagiri, Wildlife Institute of India has accelerated ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...