A young green sea turtle in Florida is back in the ocean after surviving a severe boat strike that badly damaged her shell. Her release is not just an uplifting rehabilitation sto ...

It seems fitting that Dellora – a creature named for one of the region’s conservation heroines – laid the season’s first documented green sea turtle nest on Sanibel last month. The Sanibel-Captiva ...

Researchers and rescuers knew pretty quickly something was wrong with the green sea turtle they came across last year in San Diego Bay. Yeah, she was missing a flipper. But that wasn’t the big issue ...

Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood. All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean ...

The hospital said blood from resident turtle Sam was matched for Myrtle to help the suspected lung injury heal.

TORII STATION, Okinawa — A 100-million-year-old reproductive ritual continued this week at this small Army installation on Okinawa’s western coast. A green sea turtle crawled ashore early Wednesday at ...

It's a big victory for green sea turtles after decades of conservation work: They're no longer considered endangered, reports the BBC. The shift is noted in the updated "Red List" of the International ...

The Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas), an essential species in marine ecosystems, has experienced a significant recovery in its population in recent decades. According to the International Union for ...

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 ...

A new epidemiological study of endangered juvenile green sea turtles in eastern Brazil suggests that factors such as water temperature, salinity and proximity to environmental stressors could trigger ...

CALAPAN CITY — A green sea turtle was rescued after it was found entangled in a fishing net off Barangay Buenavista in the Romblon town of Looc on Wednesday morning (September 9). The turtle (Chelonia ...