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

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — A young green sea turtle was recently discovered stranded along Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The seashore’s Resource Management team transported her to the Sea Turtle ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

The rehab team conducted an exam on the sea turtle and began cleaning her. She was covered with a heavy load of epibiota—barnacles, algae, and other aquatic creatures. When she arrived ...