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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

In captivity, baby loggerhead turtles do a little dance when they know food is coming. Ken Lohmann / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sea turtle migrations are impressive: These aquatic ...

OUTER BANKS, N.C. — Kemp's ridley sea turtles, the smallest and most endangered sea turtle species in the world, were caught nesting at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These small sea turtles usually ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

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Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific ...