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.

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MARATHON, Florida Keys — A female juvenile green sea turtle, rehabilitated at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital, was released from a Keys beach Friday after six months of life-saving medical ...

Sea turtle nesting season has begun on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key as volunteers resume daily early morning patrols.

A thirty-five-pound green sea turtle named Haven that spent the last six months in rehab at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida, finally got her chance to go home Friday. The 8-year-old ...

A new study found sea turtle scutes can archive their lives and hold clues to lasting impacts from damaging red tides and ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa — A 100-million-year-old reproductive ritual continued this week at this small Army installation on Okinawa’s western coast. A green sea turtle crawled ashore early Wednesday at ...

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) has documented the first local sea turtle ...