The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

One green sea turtle can contain the equivalent of ten ping pong balls in plastic. Story by Xia (Alice) Zhu, Chelsea Rochman, Matthew Mazloff • 20m.

Green sea turtles are graceful swimmers with powerful flippers. They usually poke along at less than 6 mph. But scientists say the turtles can get up to 22 mph — roughly as fast as the ...

Nickel, a green sea turtle rescued near Goodland, Florida, swims the waters of the Shedd Aquarium’s Caribbean Reef exhibit in its debut in 2003. Volunteer diver Stephanie Baranko, right, is seen ...

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A green sea turtle, now nicknamed "Lucky Duck," was rescued and brought to the N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island with shark attack injuries and a stomach full of plastic.

Green sea turtles like this one are often born on a beach about 1,600 miles away, in Michoacan, Mexico, where masses of these turtles pop out of their shells all at once and start scurrying ...

A very sick green sea turtle has been found in a clump of seaweed on a beach, while vomiting a strange pink-colored liquid.. The turtle was spotted by resident Jenn Symonds, on Middleton Beach in ...

Chinese conservationists recently discovered endangered green sea turtles have returned to Woody Island in the South China ...

The rare green sea turtle, shown here on a volcanic beach in the Pacific, made a mysterious reappearance on Bermuda's shores in 2015. GeorgeBurba / iStock This article ...

Green sea turtles are less common than loggerheads in the area. Dellora, originally tagged in 2015, has been observed returning to the area multiple times.

Once on the path to extinction, East Pacific green sea turtles in L.A. are coming back in a major way – right in the middle of suburbia. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 15, 2023.) ...