Turtles
This reading profile brings together 2 source-linked articles that reference turtles.
Fauna does not yet have a full sourced identification profile for this name, so this page keeps the relevant reading together without inventing missing species detail.Source-linked reading
- Field guideHow sea turtles navigateSea turtles extract directional and positional information from geographic patterns in Earth's magnetic field, then combine those cues with experience and other senses to travel between widely separated habitats.
- Field guideHow animals detect magnetic fieldsExperiments support sensitivity to field direction, inclination, or intensity in multiple taxa; radical-pair chemistry, magnetic particles, and electromagnetic induction are leading mechanism classes, not one confirmed universal sensor.