Albatrosses and sea turtles are known to perform extremely long-distance journeys between
disparate feeding areas and breeding sites located on small, isolated, oceanic islands or at …

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) that shuttle between their Brazilian feeding grounds and
nesting beaches at Ascension Island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are a paradigmatic …

Sea turtles can extract two types of navigational information from Earth's magnetic field:(1)
directional or compass information; and,(2) positional or map information useful in assessing …

Sea turtles have recently been shown to have the sensory ability to use magnetic
information for guidance in the open ocean, although the importance of different potential …

I magine a female green turtle (Chelonia my&s) heading from the feeding grounds in the
waters off the Brazilian coast to the nesting site at the sandy beaches of Ascension Island in …

The possibility that albatrosses use a geomagnetic bi-coordinate map for long-distance
navigation at sea was investigated by evaluating how five different geomagnetic parameters …

Background Laboratory and field experiments have provided evidence that sea turtles use
geomagnetic cues to navigate in the open sea. For instance, green turtles (Chelonia mydas) …

Sea turtles are known to perform long‐distance, oceanic migrations between disparate
feeding areas and breeding sites, some of them located on isolated oceanic islands. These …

Adult sea turtles of several species migrate across vast expanses of ocean to arrive at
specific nesting areas and feeding sites. Two hypotheses have been proposed to account …

Young sea turtles use the Earth's magnetic field as a source of navigational information
during their epic transoceanic migrations and while homing. A new study using satellite …