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At one end, they noticed a sea turtle caught in the netting and struggling. They wasted no time springing into action to ...
Georgia beachgoers and tourists can play a part in the state's decades-long sea turtle conservation efforts. See how here.
Texas is experiencing a record sea turtle nesting season, and now wildlife officials are responding to an unexpected side ...
It’s through this method that the tiger shark can cut through a thick sea turtle shell, which is made of tough keratin. Also, tiger sharks’ jaws are reinforced with calcium and fused in the ...
An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.
It remains illegal in Florida to interfere with sea turtles or their nests. They are both protected under Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act and the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973. If you ...
A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.
Sea turtle nesting season has arrived in the Panhandle with the first local sighting of the sea turtle nest recorded in Perdido Key, fittingly, on Mother's Day.
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 too large to fit ...
While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as a whole, experts say this does not necessarily mean they have been saved from endangerment.
Three loggerhead sea turtle nests have been recorded in Sarasota. Most sea turtle nests were wiped out by hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton in 2024.
A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.