New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

Explore the scientific breakthrough that reveals how baby sea turtles can navigate vast oceans with the help of magnetic cues ...

American scientists have discovered that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the Earth’s magnetic field to tell them where they ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

It might sound like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, but the world's magnetic northern pole has changed. The magnetic north pole is the point that compasses point to as north and is ...

Unlike the geographic North Pole, which stays put at the top of the globe, the North Magnetic Pole moves, and it historically does this at a fairly steady rate. Lately, it’s moved at about 31 miles ...

Now that the government shutdown is over, federal agencies have finally released an early edition of the World Magnetic Model, almost a full year before the next one was scheduled to be released, the ...