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 ...

He’s 107 years old, weighs 120 pounds, and now you can see him up close! Meet Bone Crusher, the Greensboro Science Center’s legendary alligator snapping turtle.

The turtles emerged from eight to 10 different nests from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. The team housed the turtles in individual tanks with controlled water temperatures and a standard diet ...

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots ...

Kon Knueppel scored 17 points and No. 1 Duke held off a furious second half rally by North Carolina to beat its rival for the ...

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

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that loggerhead sea turtles can learn and remember the unique magnetic ...

In 2000, fewer than 50 sea turtles were found stranded on the beaches of Cape Cod; by 2022, that number had skyrocketed to ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that ... in the journal Nature led by Kayla Goforth of the University of North Carolina. The study said the research provides the first "direct ...