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Sea Turtles Reveal A Sixth Sense—Finding Their Way Home & Sensing The Seasons

Medicine & Technology Jan 15, 2015

As a migratory species, Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochely coriacea) are a rare oddity of nature that spend their lives mostly in travel, between their breeding grounds in open ocean and their tropical places of birth. Travelling back and forth between the tropics and their hunting grounds to the north, the unique species follows the cool waters, as they flow throughout the oceans they inhabit. But that doesn't even begin to unravel their mysterious origins or how they know to traverse the seas.

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Sea Turtles Reveal A Sixth Sense—Finding Their Way Home & Sensing The Seasons

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