A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

Charlotte, a green sea turtle, was hit by a boat back in 2008. This left it with an affliction colloquially referred to as the “bubble butt,” a kind of floating syndrome that makes it impossible for a ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

Sea turtle nesting season has arrived in the Panhandle with the first local sighting of the sea turtle nest recorded in Perdido Key, fittingly, on Mother's Day. Turtle nesting season typically occurs ...

It's a long-held idea that turtles can tuck their heads into their shells when threatened. But is it true? And is this protective trick why turtles the world over have shells today? The answer is that ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - A fishing trip for a family of four, a few year’s ago, turned up a one-in-a-million find. The Coleman’s were on the Alabama river in Clarke County when they discovered a ...

This is the dramatic moment marine rescuers saved a turtle trapped in a fishing net at sea. The Pattaya Marine Disaster ...