The yellow-bellied slider is a semiaquatic turtle, native to southeastern United States, where it is the most common turtle species. As the name suggests, they have a yellow belly that is buried under ...

Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

OUTER BANKS, N.C. — A stranded loggerhead turtle was rescued in the Outer Banks last week by the Network for Endangered Sea Turtles, or NEST. NEST is an "all volunteer, non-profit organization ...

Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the most endangered sea turtle species on Earth, live in some of the noisiest waters on the planet, right alongside major shipping routes. New research reveals that ...

SAN ANTONIO — The big game buzz is building this Sunday, and one local celebrity has already made a fin-tastic prediction. Guacamole, a rescued green sea turtle at SEA LIFE San Antonio, paddled into ...

Gayle Anderson reports a new sea turtle rehabilitation area is now open at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. For the first time, visitors to the Aquarium will be able to see rescued sea ...

Families, children and spectators stood along the Galveston shore with wide smiles and loud cheers as they watched volunteers carry 102 sea turtles, one by one, into the Gulf on Thursday afternoon.

“It’s definitely always very gratifying to see these animals go back into their ocean home,” said Dr. Heather Barron with the Loggerhead Marinelife Center Loggerhead Marinelife Center/Facebook The ...

People weren't the only ones affected by the recent freezing temperatures. Between Jan. 26 and Jan. 28, the Texas State Aquarium Wildlife Rescue Center admitted 332 cold-stunned green sea turtles. The ...

For the first time, visitors at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach will be able to see rescued sea turtles as they go through rehabilitation for an eventual return to their natural habitat. The ...

Humans aren’t the only Lowcountry residents feeling the cold. The South Carolina Aquarium’s first admission of the year is a cold-stunned green sea turtle. The juvenile was found by a beach walker Jan ...