If you’ve ever seen a video of someone gently scraping off barnacles from a turtle’s shell—or more dramatically, from its mouth—it might have stopped you in your tracks. There’s something incredibly ...

As someone who loves all animals, I get a slew of mixed emotions watching rescues. We're so happy that the animals are being removed from something that's not safe, but it's also really hard to see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other ...

This week, our seasonal high tides continued and uncovered some interesting beach finds, including auger snails, several life rings, and sea turtle barnacles. In my survey this week I found a stranded ...

A massive adult female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed ashore near Beach Pocket Park #3 in Galveston on March 7, triggering an urgent rescue effort along the Texas Gulf Coast. The turtle — the world’s ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

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.