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.
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 ...
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 ...
Cold air and frigid waters have caused more than 600 young green sea turtles to wash ashore on Florida’s beaches this month — and more are turning up every day. Rescuers have saved them from the sand ...
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 ...
DAMAGE AND DISRUPTIONS TO YOUR WATER SERVICE. COLD, STRESSED SEA TURTLES ARE WASHING ASHORE ALONG THE VOLUSIA COUNTY COASTLINE. ALL ARE RECOVERING AT THE MARINE SCIENCE CENTER IN PONCE INLET. NOW, ...
Serena’s shell was smothered with barnacles, her body weak from infection and exhaustion. Many turtles don’t make it this far. But this rescue team believed in her. They gave her warmth, space, care — ...
This is the heartwarming moment a turtle tangled in a discarded fishing net was freed and released back into the ocean. Fishermen spotted the hapless green sea turtle caught in the nylon mesh along ...