Tag: Indian Ocean

July 28, 2020

Sea turtles’ navigation systems may put them off course

Sea turtles use internal maps to migrate to small, isolated islands, but researchers found the turtles’ navigation systems don’t always guide them with perfect accuracy. While many researchers have studied...

August 8, 2018

Removing invasive island rats could help coral reefs

Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently discovered that nonnative rats could impede the flow...