After nearly a year of recovery, Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific has returned Porkchop — a green sea turtle with just three flippers — back into the wild. It’s been a long journey for Porkchop, ...

RIGHT NOW, ABOUT 72 DEGREES. THAT’S A LOOK AT THE FORECAST. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GLENN. AND JUST LAST WEEK, LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER FOUND THEIR EARLIEST LEATHERBACK NEST ON THEIR 8.5 ...

Carole Allen — founder of HEART (Help Endangered Animals Ridley Turtles) and the first director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico office — passed away at the age of 90. For ...

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 ...

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 on ...

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 ...

Sawyer, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, receives medical care after being found floating in the Mississippi Sound, missing a front flipper and suffering from bacterial lung disease. From left are Dr. Tom ...

Saturday, Feb. 7th, brought a celebration of marine conservation as volunteers released 16 rehabilitated sea turtles back into Gulf waters at Marker 35 on Mustang Island. The released turtles, ...

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 ...