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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new reason for turtles to dance for joy: Loggerhead sea turtles seem able to discern and remember magnetic field signatures, which could help them find food. The Earth’s ...

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 travel thousands of miles from where they are born to foraging locations then return again to lay eggs. A new study shows how they do it. Sea turtles, along with birds and salmon, ...

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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In the “rewarded” field, all the marine reptiles exhibited some extent of “turtle dance” behavior, which included tilting their bodies vertically, holding their heads near or above the water’s surface ...