People enjoying the sun and water at Fred Howard Park on Wednesday afternoon were treated to a unique Florida event as The ...

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

The Mote Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital in Sarasota had been closed since hurricanes Helene and Milton but reopened to ...

Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) are protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act and Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Species Rule. These turtles face significant threats ...

After months of rehabilitation, Buckley, a green sea turtle found stranded more than a mile from the Gulf of Mexico, is ready ...

This week alone, in collaboration with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission and other partners, Mote Marine Laboratory & ...

The park urged the public not to keep endangered wild animals as pets. Green sea turtles are currently classified as endangered due to overharvesting of their eggs, poaching, loss of habitat and ...

eventually tagging 114 animals – including endangered green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbills and Kemp’s ridleys. This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle with a ...

The reptiles, an endangered species ... Most of those rescued were green sea turtles, according to Samantha Snow, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who helped lead the effort.