Meet Kalani: a spirited Australian sea turtle, whose story begins in a heartbreaking place. Back in January, a passerby found ...

A loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls into the ocean in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach ...

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.

As any wildlife nerd knows, no animals are exactly alike when you take a closer look at them. The loggerhead and the green sea turtle are no exception! Despite the differences in name, these two ...

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.

brown sea turtle. Photo by Olga ga, via Unsplash Sea turtles are fascinating creatures that have roamed the Earth since the time of the dinosaurs. There are seven species of sea turtles, each with ...

Loggerhead sea turtle. Image by wrangel via Depositphotos. Myrtle was first documented in 1987 by marine biologists conducting population surveys near the Florida Keys. What made this particular ...

Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program and its partners at Jekyll Island’s Georgia Sea Turtle Center released 22 juvenile sea turtles into the Atlantic Ocean on April 10.

A sea turtle's shell is a complex masterpiece, made up of two parts: the carapace (top) and the plastron (bottom), both covered in scutes -- tough keratin plates tightly attached to the bone.

A sea turtle’s shell is a masterpiece. A new study reveals that marine turtle shells combine flexibility and strength to protect against predators like sharks and stress while optimizing ...

Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel excess salt from their bodies. (As far as we know, they are not sad.) Martin would then take those tears back to her lab for analysis.

State officials say they are struggling to verify a photograph posted on a Hawai’i-based Facebook page that shows a sea turtle with the top half of its shell missing. According to the Department ...