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February 16, 2025

Learned Magnetic Map Cues and Two Mechanisms of Magnetoreception in Turtles,” Nature, February 12, 2025. “Our results demonstrate that an animal can learn the natural magnetic signatures of geographical areas, thus corroborating a foundational premise of goal navigation with magnetic maps.”

 

January 16, 2015

“Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting and Magnetic Navigation in the Natal Homing of Sea Turtles,” Current Biology, February 2, 2015.

“[O]ur results provide the strongest evidence to date that sea turtles find their nesting areas at least in part by navigating to unique magnetic signatures along the coast.…These findings…suggest that similar mechanisms underlie natal homing in diverse long-distance migrants such as fishes, birds and mammals.” Open access.

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