In fact, officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say alligators eat turtles and other prey that is abundant and easily accessible. So, when a travel blogger in Tampa ...

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Last week, rescuers pulled more than 40 small green sea turtles from offshore St. Augustine. Biologists drove many of those to the Tampa Bay area, where they’re warming up at the Florida ...

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The turtle, named "Buckley," was being rehabilitated at the Sea Turtle Conservation Program at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa.

By most measures, it was a banner year for sea turtle nests at beaches around the U.S., including record numbers for some species in Florida and elsewhere. Yet the positive picture for turtles is ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A loggerhead sea turtle named Rocky paused briefly on the sand Wednesday morning before slowly crawling into the Atlantic Ocean after spending six weeks rehabbing at ...

If you're ready for Spring to bring warmer temperatures, you're not alone. A group of sea turtles in Florida was released into the Atlantic Ocean this week after almost a month rehabbing from ...

Augustine and later taken in by Florida Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center near Tampa. The green sea turtles were initially treated at The Sea Turtle Hospital at UF Whitney Lab ...

If a turtle’s eggs incubate below 81.86 Fahrenheit (27.7 Celsius), the turtle hatchlings will be male, whereas if they incubate above 88.8 F (31C), they will be female, according to NOAA’S ...