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

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

Paris: Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favourite spots, scientists said Wednesday. Some animals that ...

Paris: In a fascinating new study, scientists have found that dancing turtles provide the first evidence that certain animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a mental map of their favourite ...

The Earth’s magnetic field is detected ... The memorized signatures appear to help these turtles form a “map” of the magnetic field. Chemist and biophysicist Jonathan Woodward, a professor ...

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The result that magnetic-field detection might have evolved separately for the map and compass senses bolsters growing evidence for dual magnetoreception systems in other vertebrates 1 ...

They can use the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field to identify where they are–map sense–and where they need to go, or compass sense. “Map sense is a positional sense. It’s similar ...