A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida's Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (137 kilograms), Pennywise was too large to fit their ...

The first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season was found on April 6 in Juno Beach, marking the second earliest loggerhead nesting recorded since 1983. Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center ...

A 375-pound (170-kilogram) sea turtle has been released back into the Atlantic Ocean after three months of rehabilitation in Florida. Officials with the Brevard Zoo released a male loggerhead named ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific released a loggerhead sea turtle into the ocean off the Long Beach coast this week after thet staff there rehabilitated it over the summer. Marine Mammal Center staff ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (WNCN) — Two weeks after a great white shark pinged off the Outer Banks, more aquatic animals tracked by nonprofit research organization OCEARCH have surfaced in the waters off of ...

Loggerhead sea turtle nesting season officially began in Georgia with the first confirmed nests reported on Tuesday, May 6. Nests were found on St. Catherines Island and Cumberland Island National ...

Learn about the hatching habits of one of oldest creatures on Earth Alan B. Bolten and Blair E. Witherington June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day, which celebrates the creatures and acknowledges the ...

Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

A rare loggerhead turtle has spent its first night at a sea life centre in Dorset after being rescued from a beach in Jersey. The dog walker who found it washed up on 19 January initially thought it ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A crowd cheered and took photos as two loggerhead sea turtles slowly made their way through the sand and into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after rehabbing at a Florida marine ...