JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The protection of sea turtles during nesting season has been championed for years. Now, nesting records are being broken. St. Lucie County has documented more loggerhead ...

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.

MOUNT PLEASANT — A sea turtle found stranded in Shem Creek on May 15 is being rehabilitated in the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Care Center. A man spotted the juvenile green turtle, its brown ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shell integration typically involves 50 to 60 individual bones fusing into a permanent structural cage. The carapace creates a mechanical constraint that prevents the chest from expanding during ...

The year was 1999, and a university student named Yaniv Levy, majoring in marine biology, was taking a walk on the sands of Mikhmoret beach north of Netanya when he happened upon a large sea turtle, ...

Some Midwesterners dream of trading winter for warmth by moving to Florida to start a new life. For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the ...