or dropped raw into a shot glass with lemon, tomato juice, and pepper. Eggs don’t bring huge dollars, but because most turtles lay 50 to 100 or more at once and leave long sandy tracks from sea ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cold-stunning occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, which is too cold for sea turtles to maintain their body temperature.

Sea Turtle Inc., a South Padre-based organization dedicated to helping sea turtles through medical care, research and education, announced Saturday they have already rescued 190 turtles in the ...

But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far ...

Sea turtles can get attacked by sharks, become immobilized by cold weather and weakened by disease. More often, sea turtles collide with boats or get entangled in fishing gear. In 2023 ...

Twenty cold-stunned juvenile green turtles rescued from the frigid waters off Florida’s east coast are receiving care at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission documented over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtle rescues within six days. Florida’s northern coast was recently hit with a rare cold weather ...

Although many rejoiced and took advantage of the rare snow by having snowball fights, sledding and even building mini snowmen, the winter weather had a lasting impact on green sea turtles along ...