![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509063333im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field No Place Like Home: New Theory for How Salmon, Sea Turtles Find Their Birthplace
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December 1, 2008
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How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unraveled the secret.
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Source University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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