Sea Turtle, Dancing Baby

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.
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. Sea turtles can travel these distances by remembering the magnetic signatures of an area and storing that knowledge in a mental map.
Sea turtles ‘dance’ when their superpower leads them to food
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.
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
Where young sea turtles spend their early lives has always been a mystery - until now
Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.
Watch baby sea turtles do a happy dance (video)
Loggerhead sea turtles do an excited "turtle dance" when anticipating food. It's adorable, of course, but it has also allowed scientists to understand better how the turtles navigate. Scientists have theorized that sea turtles memorize coordinates to navigate using a magnetic "map.
Sea Turtles Dance to Orientate With Earth's Magnetic Field, Study Reveals
Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favorite spots, scientists said Wednesday.
Sea turtle Barnacle Bill treated by UK's first dedicated rehab centre
The number of sea turtles washing up on UK beaches has more than doubled in recent years, prompting the creation of the ...
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Sea turtles shown to use magnetic ‘map’ to navigate ocean
Sea turtles are incredible cute creatures that also know their way around a map, at least a magnetic “map” in the oceans they traverse through their lives. That’s according to new research published ...
Florida Aquarium releases green sea turtle back into the wild
"Buckley," the green sea turtle, was found in Dixie County in the middle of a rural dirt road. He has now returned to the ...
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Florida scientists help solve mystery of sea turtles' ‘lost years’ in Gulf
Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...
Chiefs or Eagles? American Dream Sea Life turtle makes her Super Bowl pick
The group of football experts making predictions for this weekend's Super Bowl includes an esteemed North Jersey analyst.
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How the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab saves sea turtles
After Hurricane Helene, Echo, a sea turtle found in freshwater, is being rehabilitated at the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab. Learn ...
Tamil Nadu: More Than 1000 Sea Turtles Carcasses Wash Up To Shores; Reason Behind Mass Death Remains Unknown
Chennai: In January 2025, over 1,100 olive ridley sea turtles washed ashore in Tamil Nadu, primarily near Chennai, likely due ...
Turtle deaths: TN withdraws subsidy for 100 Chennai fishermen
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu fisheries department has withdrawn subsidies for 100 fishermen based in Chennai for violating the ...