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.

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 turtle was rescued over the weekend (Photo: Caswell Beach Turtle Watch) OAK ISLAND, NC (WWAY) — The Caswell Beach Turtle Watch rescued a turtle from the ocean over the weekend. ‘Glass’ the Green ...

Bear the hawksbill sea turtle was in dire straits when she was found stranded on a beach in Australia.

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 ...

Whales are amazing creatures, swimming throughout the Earth’s oceans often traveling thousands of miles to follow food, mate, and seemingly just have fun. Almost anywhere you find whales, however, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sea turtle's harrowing weekend adventure at Pensacola Beach has finally ended inside the safety of the Gulfarium CARE Center at ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...

A sea turtle's harrowing weekend adventure at Pensacola Beach has finally ended inside the safety of the Gulfarium CARE Center at Fort Walton Beach. A beachgoer posted an image of a 107-pound ...