Syrena the loggerhead turtle was near death when she was rescued by marine biologist Tabitha Siegfried.

"Every single Hawksbill sea turtle is precious … we must protect them from extinction," said the Bermagui Veterinary Clinic ...

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 ...

While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

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 ...

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It’s common for slow-moving sea creatures to become heavily encrusted, but something alive that washed ashore in Texas is being called a worst-case scenario. The tough-to-recognize creature was ...