Hanging above the tank itself is the skeleton of a turtle larger than any sea turtle now living, the Archelon, which lived about 70 million years ago, measured 15 feet in length and weighed 4,500 ...

New research estimates that approximately 60 tonnes of plastic debris discarded in the ocean reside within female green ...

A satellite tracking device attached to Dilly Dally's shell will allow the center and the public to follow her journey.

skeleton shrimp, bryozoans, and other small invertebrates. Some had embedded themselves into the turtle's soft tissues and mouth. "[Sea turtles] become heavily encrusted when they are ill and tend ...

“These sea turtles often strand with epibiota — organisms ... acorn and gooseneck barnacles, worms, crabs, skeleton shrimp, bryozoans, and other small invertebrates. Some barnacles had ...

Lezcano et al, Using the axial skeleton as armor: Mechanical behavior of sea turtle carapaces throughout ontogeny, Journal of Experimental Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.249959 ...

“These sea turtles often strand with epibiota — organisms ... gooseneck barnacles, worms, crabs, skeleton shrimp, bryozoans, and other small invertebrates. She was weighed down, with barnacles ...

Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be ...

Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday. “Many of the turtle populations have ...

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.