Each year, Olive Ridley sea turtles travel thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, only to arrive precisely at the same beaches along India’s coastline where they once hatched.
From Odisha’s mass nesting sites to scattered shores in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, their annual arrival is powered by one of the most remarkable navigational systems in the natural world, a built-in biological GPS.
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A MAGNETIC MAP
At the heart of Olive Ridley’s journey is its ability to sense the Earth’
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