Final ThoughtsThanks to Dr. Taylor, Sam, Lucious, and Jane, we’ve learned so much about the fascinating world of animal ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, ...

While many people will be having fancy dinners or opening heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates on Feb. 14, many others — who ...

And if we use senolytics, we see that the inflammation goes away and the regenerative capacity of the surrounding tissue is restored — well, at least if you’re a mouse.” Based on dozens of preclinical ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...

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

Alabama and Mississippi each have more species of turtles than any other state and more than most countries in the world. Whit Gibbons is professor of zoology and senior biologist at the ...

Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.