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.

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

May 22 (UPI) --Marine rescuers in North Carolina said they removed more than 1.5 pounds of barnacles and other organisms from a stranded green sea turtle. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore said on ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Coastal Connections, Inc. (CCI) took in a hard-shelled sea creature with an unusually fluffy coat.

A Lewes nonprofit is asking boaters to report sightings of an injured loggerhead sea turtle in the Indian River Bay. The endangered turtle has noticeable algae, barnacles and a rear shell injury. MERR ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Bugs, a juvenile green sea turtle, will be released back into the ocean on Oct. 1 after a five-month rehabilitation at the Sea Turtle Healing Center at Brevard Zoo. The release ...

KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) - A loggerhead sea turtle that was caught in a crab trap line has returned home after getting a helping hand in Key West. The massive loggerhead, named Molly, spent three months ...