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A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field
Carolina researchers publish a groundbreaking study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.
Kayla Goforth, a recent doctoral graduate in the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology department, is the lead author of “Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles.” Early on in her graduate studies at Carolina, Goforth was fascinated by sea turtles returning to the same feeding sites again and again throughout their lifetimes — despite traveling up to 10,000 miles across the planet. The assay suggests that loggerhead sea turtles can learn the magnetic signatures of geographical areas — much like dropping a pin in a GPS app.
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