Sentences with phrase «loggerhead turtle hatchlings»

After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they live in the ocean for 7 - 12 years before migrating to coastal habitats.

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Previous studies, led by Kenneth J. Lohmann of the University of North Carolina, had shown that hatchling loggerhead turtles can detect features of magnetic fields known as inclination angle and field intensity.

But a hatchling loggerhead turtle would know just where to paddle — by reading the Earth's magnetic field.

Here we report that hatchling loggerheads, when exposed to magnetic fields replicating those found in three widely separated oceanic regions, responded by swimming in directions that would, in each case, help keep turtles within the currents of the North Atlantic gyre and facilitate movement along the migratory pathway.

The effects of incubation environment, sex and pedigree on the hatchling phenotype in a natural population of loggerhead turtles.