For decades, satellites have enabled people to peer back at their planet, giving a once unthinkable perspective to what’s going on below. These days, however, these views have become so common most ...

New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet itself. Scientists are now showing that turtles do not just sense Earth’s ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an ...