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How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs?

French scientists from CNRS and other groups shows that the marine turtles use a relatively simple navigation system involving the earth's magnetic field, and this allows them to return to the same egg-laying site without having the ability to correct for the deflection of ocean currents. Published in the Current Biology and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

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