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MELBOURNE, Fla. – Last week, rough waves and heavy winds pushed dense sargassum seaweed onto Florida beaches, trapping hundreds of sea turtle hatchlings. [WATCH: Heavy Winds and rough seas push ...

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is seeking volunteers for its annual spiny softshell turtle beach cleanup day Oct. 18. Participants are asked to arrive at North Hero State Park at 10 a.m., ...

MELBORNE, Fla. — More than 300 sea turtle hatchlings have been brought to the Brevard Zoo’s Sea Turtle Healing Center after rough weather pushed them back to shore. The hatchlings are currently ...

SATELLITE Beach, Fla. – Volunteers with the Sea Turtle Preservation Society (STPS) are working tirelessly to rescue sea turtle hatchlings trapped in thick sargassum seaweed pushed ashore by rough ...

The Sea Turtle Hospital at the UF Whitney Laboratory in St. Augustine is launching its Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle program this month. The program runs Oct. 21-31. Those symbolically adopting one of ...

So far this year, some 90,000 loggerhead turtle hatchlings have emerged from their sandy nests on a pair of beaches located within the Cape Romain National Wildlife. And this wasn’t even a great year ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) is inviting the public to watch the release of two loggerhead sea turtles into their aquarium habitat. According to the ...

CHANDELEUR ISLANDS, La. (WVUE) - State wildlife biologists conducting surveys in recent months confirmed hundreds of sea turtles successfully hatched on Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands. It marks the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - More than a dozen baby snapping turtles were found during routine garden work at a local hospice facility. And people at Hospice of Northwest Ohio are welcoming them to stay.

Smelly, brown seaweed washing up on Florida shores is snaring baby sea turtles on their way to the ocean, researchers warned this week, leaving them vulnerable to predators and putting them at risk of ...

A leatherback sea turtle hatchling climbs over sargassum on a beach. In a new study, researchers timed sea turtles to see how long it took them to reach the ocean when they had to traverse piles of ...