Nearly two dozen juvenile green sea turtles are being nursed back to life thanks to a team of dedicated experts at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida. A staggering 22 young turtles—several ...

Marine biologist Tabitha Siegfried spent 92 days saving and rehabbing a sick turtle she found before releasing the healthy ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...

A cold-stunned Kemp's ridley sea turtle lays in the sand with seaweed piled on top of it to keep it warm before the arrival of people from Mass Audubon on the scene at Great Hallow beach in Cape Cod ...

A sea turtle struggling in the ocean off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates caught an amazingly lucky break. In what was surely a chance in a million, a jet skier noticed the ...

Whales are amazing creatures, swimming throughout the Earth’s oceans often traveling thousands of miles to follow food, mate, and seemingly just have fun. Almost anywhere you find whales, however, you ...

A rescue turtle trapped in limbo for nearly two years due to Brexit is finally heading home. The loggerhead turtle, affectionately named "Barnacle Bill" was taken in by the animal shelter GSPCA in ...

What began as a routine diving trip turned into a rescue mission for Emirati diver and social media influencer Majid Al Ameri ...

Bette Zirkelbach, manager of the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital, lifts a juvenile green sea turtle encrusted with barnacles Monday, March 11, 2019, at the hospital in Marathon. The reptile is ...

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...