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Sea Turtles Use Magnetic Fields to Navigate and Locate Feeding Sites

Young loggerhead turtles can create a magnetic map of their favorite spots, as shown by a study published in the journal Nature.
The turtles' ability to learn and remember magnetic fields helps them return to important areas for nesting and feeding, according to Dr. Kayla Goforth.
The study found that loggerheads rely on two distinct systems: a magnetic map for locations and a compass for direction, as stated by the researchers.
Concerns were raised about the impact of RF waves from devices on turtles' navigation, emphasizing the need for conservation of important nesting areas, as highlighted by Dr. Kayla Goforth.

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Smithsonian Mag

Dancing Baby Sea Turtles Help Researchers Unravel the Mysteries of Their Navigational Superpowers

Loggerhead turtles can identify specific magnetic signatures, according to a new study, hinting at how the aquatic reptiles manage to return to the same foraging and nesting sites over and over again

9 days ago·United States

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Cosmos Science

Dancing turtles reveal how animals navigate magnetic fields

UNC-Chapel Hill researcher holding a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle. Credit: Ken Lohmann, UNC-Chapel Hill I can’t imagine what it would be like to sense a magnetic field. But a new study has presented the first evidence that loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) use magnetic fields as a compass to determine direction and also use it to determine their geographical location. There’s a little dance involved, too. Sea turtles are extraordinary navig…

10 days ago·Washington, United States

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Study Finds

How sea turtles use Earth's magnetic field as a GPS for precise ocean journeys

Scientists have long wondered how sea turtles navigate vast ocean distances with remarkable precision. The post How sea turtles use Earth’s magnetic field as a GPS for precise ocean journeys appeared first on Study Finds.

10 days ago

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NDTV

Dancing Turtles Show How Animals Use Magnetic Field As A Map

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favourite spots, scientists said Wednesday.

10 days ago·New Delhi, India

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Nature

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles

Growing evidence indicates that migratory animals exploit the magnetic field of the Earth for navigation, both as a compass to determine direction and as a map to determine geographical position1. It has long been proposed that, to navigate using a magnetic map, animals must learn the magnetic coordinates of the destination2,3, yet the pivotal hypothesis that animals can learn magnetic signatures of geographical areas has, to our knowledge, yet …

10 days ago·United Kingdom

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RTÉ

Turtle dance shows how animals use magnetic field as map

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favourite spots, according to scientists.

10 days ago·Ireland

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