We've put them at risk, but with a little help, they're rebounding. Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life Medturtles, an EU-funded sea life conservation project, estimates that more than 70 percent of sea turtle deaths in the Mediterranean are caused by gillnets—large nets used for mass fishing.

Ten turtles rescued after stranding along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay were released into the Canaveral National Seashore in Florida on Tuesday afternoon, according to the New England Aquarium and ...

Ten sea turtles rescued from hypothermic conditions on Cape Cod last year were rehabilitated and returned to ocean waters in Florida Tuesday afternoon, New England Aquarium officials said in a ...

a Beatbot representative tells us that the robot has a swimming speed close to that of a real sea turtle, and that it could conceivably swim all day if it were to periodically take solar-charging ...

According to those at Gulf World Marine Institute, the threshold that these sea turtles want to swim in is just above 50 degrees or higher. Now, that might sound like a cold plunge to some people ...