Young turtles appear to learn the magnetic signatures of favorable locations as they drift with ocean currents during their early “lost years.” Later, they can use this mental magnetic map to ...

This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens ... the wholesale reversal of Earth's magnetic fields some 900,000 years ago. This confirmed the ...

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Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures that ... How she had traveled thousands of miles around the Pacific Ocean, only to return there to the very beach she was ...

A PROJECT for a magnetic survey of the North Pacific Ocean by the Department of International Research in Terrestrial Magnetism has been favourably acted upon by the executive committee of the ...

By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food ... geomagnetic senses to help them navigate during their epic ocean journeys. “The turtle dance is a strange pattern of behaviour that ...