In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way. Wallace J. Nichols tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered sea turtles can learn and remember specific magnetic field signatures of geographic locations, effectively creating their own internal GPS system that helps ...

For Turtles, Earth's Magnetism Is A Built-In GPS Loggerhead turtles are born with an ability to know where they are on Earth, and which way to swim to get to favorable feeding grounds, a new study ...

Earth’s invisible magnetic field is essential for life. While humans can’t sense it, many animals have evolved the ability to perceive and use it for navigation. Loggerhead sea turtles are one ...

The fact that leatherback turtles swim thousands of miles is driven home beautifully in this new map of their sophisticated, ocean-spanning movements. Between 2000 and 2007, biologists attached ...

A University of North Carolina found genetic evidence that magnetic navigation guides loggerhead sea turtles home, but sometimes their internal GPS gets a bit mixed up.

A carton of decoy GPS enabled sea turtle eggs, dimpled to resemble the real thing. (Helen Pheasey) Social Sharing. Quirks and Quarks 7:45 Decoy sea turtle eggs with GPS crack illegal egg trafficking.

How GPS Can Help Save the World's Most Endangered Sea Turtles Tracking hawksbill turtles by satellite is yielding information crucial to the fight to save them from poachers, traffickers, and hunters.