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.

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...

Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ocean temperatures, and even prey abundance. Just how much sea turtles are ...

Green sea turtles are protected under the Endangered Species Act. A photo recently posted on social media showing a sea turtle with its shell removed has led state officials to emphasize the proper ...

Around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 6 two Martin County marine deputies spotted a turtle in the Intracoastal Waterway with a crack on its shell. While the deputies were trying to get the turtle, a boat stopped and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mother Nature welcomed back one of its endangered species on Thursday, a green sea turtle named Stormy. The Georgia Sea Turtle Center said Stormy washed up on Huguenot Park nearly ...

The green sea turtle waddled his way into the San Gabriel River in Seal Beach, set free into the ocean. For about six months, the sea turtle has been cared for by a team at the Aquarium of the Pacific ...

The green turtle has been saved from near extinction in what scientists are calling one of the world’s great conservation success stories. Once hunted relentlessly for its meat, eggs and decorative ...

Aquarist Brendan Gilloffo works with green sea turtle Nickel on husbandry behaviors during a training session at the Shedd Aquarium on June 8, 2023. Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/TNS Some ...