We spoke with Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation Program Manager, Carly Oakley about the nesting success of sea turtles on Pinellas County beaches this season and how sea turtle ...

Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females' slow yet determined scooch onto Florida's shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs. The season ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — An exciting increase in sea turtle nests was recorded during the 2024 season along Pinellas County beaches, according to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Compared to the 227 ...

Charlotte, a green sea turtle, was hit by a boat back in 2008. This left it with an affliction colloquially referred to as the “bubble butt,” a kind of floating syndrome that makes it impossible for a ...

Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto Florida’s shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs. The season ...

Researchers documented the first olive ridley sea turtle nest in Florida history on Jupiter Beach this May.

A new facility in Orange Beach will help rehabilitate injured sea turtles. “It’s like a freestanding [emergency room] for sea turtles in Orange Beach,” Nicole Woerner, deputy director of coastal ...

JUNO BEACH — Researchers saw fewer sea turtle nests on a 9.5-mile stretch of beach in Juno Beach, Jupiter and Tequesta this season than they did in the three seasons before it. Loggerhead Marinelife ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Audubon Aquarium Rescue has welcomed 16 critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles to its facility after they were rescued from cold-stunning conditions along the East ...

Sea turtles can survive being struck by a boat propeller — but as they heal from the trauma, their shells often change shape, bulging from air building up within their bodies. That throws the animals' ...

PONCE INLET — On an October morning at the Marine Science Center's turtle hospital, Assistant Manager Alyssa Hancock gently tries to place a juvenile green sea turtle atop a scale as it flails its ...

It’s hard to forget your first glimpse of a turtle in its natural environment. In my case, it happened about 15 years ago, on a cay in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Pulling on a head-to-toe nylon ...