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Watch baby sea turtles do a happy dance (video)

Gail P Sherman
Feb 14, 2025
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Image: YouTube / New Scientist

Loggerhead sea turtles do an excited "turtle dance" when anticipating food. It's adorable, of course, but it has also allowed scientists to understand better how the turtles navigate. Scientists have theorized that sea turtles memorize coordinates to navigate using a magnetic "map." A new study in Nature used the turtles' s…

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