Most turtles live in freshwater ponds, lakes or rivers. Others live in the ocean or on land. Some even live in forests or the ...

As freezing temperatures blasted the coast, many turtles were left “cold-stunned” and in need of rehabilitation.

St. Johns County officials Wednesday reported an influx of sea turtles washing up on local beaches with severely low body ...

Some 30 cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued as temperatures on the Gulf Coast plummeted to historic lows this week.

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s recently reopened rehabilitation facility took in the cold-stunned juvenile turtles for ...

Due to being reptiles, many sea turtles can’t strictly regulate their own body temperatures like mammals or birds can. The leatherback sea turtle is the closest in the species to being able to ...

The phenomenon occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, which is too cold for sea turtles to maintain their body temperature. As a result, the cold-blooded creatures become lethargic ...

As the water temperature drops to dangerously low temperatures, sea turtles lose the ability to regulate their body temperature. A cold-stunned turtle is awake but completely immobile and unable ...

Florida's unusually cold conditions brought snow and sleet to much of Northwest Florida last week. Although many rejoiced and took advantage of the rare snow by having snowball fights, sledding ...

(WJHG/WECP) - Over 1,100 turtles find themselves at Gulf World Marine Institute trying to get warm. “They are reptiles, so their body temperature ... the threshold that these sea turtles want ...

You have to do it controlled," said Riese. Big picture view: They warm them up in 10-degree increments in pools, taking their body temps from 40 degrees when they first come in to around their normal ...