A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

This loggerhead sea turtle ... move less and float at the surface more,” the center wrote in an April 9 Facebook post. “This patient washed in with a variety of algae, acorn barnacles ...

Image: Barnacle Bill after she received treatment. Pic: SEA LIFE Brighton Of the seven species of sea turtle, three are classified as endangered, with two of those, Hawksbills and Kemp's Ridleys ...