This morning, Mote Marine Laboratory staff released a 154-pound, about 3-foot-long, subadult, female loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed "Lil' Dougie" off Siesta Key Beach. Lil' Dougie's journey began on ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (WNCN) — Two weeks after a great white shark pinged off the Outer Banks, more aquatic animals tracked by nonprofit research organization OCEARCH have surfaced in the waters off of ...

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a front flipper, has been released from a Florida animal hospital back into the Atlantic Ocean. "No ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – An endangered loggerhead sea turtle was released Monday morning into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach nearly three months after being hit by a boat. The adult female, named ...

The prognosis is good for a giant sea turtle that was rescued in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located in the South Pacific Ocean. The female loggerhead turtle, which experts estimate is ...

A large sea turtle that was found injured along the Florida coast in May following a boat strike was returned to the ocean on Wednesday. The adult female named Pennywise, which weighs 302 pounds (137 ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (137 kilograms), Pennywise was ...

Climate change is skewing turtle populations by altering hatchling sex ratios. Explore how temperature affects turtles, why ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (WNCN) — Two weeks after a great white shark pinged off the Outer Banks, more aquatic animals tracked by nonprofit research organization OCEARCH have surfaced in the waters off of ...