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.

If you’ve ever seen a video of someone gently scraping off barnacles from a turtle’s shell—or more dramatically, from its mouth—it might have stopped you in your tracks. There’s something incredibly ...

MARATHON, Fla. — A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle, found unable to dive, emaciated and covered with barnacles by a family that was fishing last June, was returned to the Atlantic Ocean off Marathon ...

Onlookers gathered to celebrate a massive story of rescue and recovery as the Turtle Hospital released loggerhead turtle ...

Nicknamed "Molly," the turtle beat all odds and survived the hourslong surgery and months of recovery after the tumor ...

A sea turtle's harrowing weekend adventure at Pensacola Beach has finally ended inside the safety of the Gulfarium CARE Center at Fort Walton Beach. A beachgoer posted an image of a 107-pound ...

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 for slow ...

It’s common for slow-moving sea creatures to become heavily encrusted, but something alive that washed ashore in Texas is being called a worst-case scenario. The tough-to-recognize creature was ...