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 ...
This past summer, off the coast of Florida, a boater spotted a loggerhead sea turtle who was completely covered in barnacles and algae. The turtle seemed to be having trouble swimming, so the ...
A massive Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the world’s smallest and most critically endangered sea turtle species — washed ashore on a Galveston, Texas, beach on March 7, 2026, launching an emergency rescue ...
"Every single Hawksbill sea turtle is precious … we must protect them from extinction," said the Bermagui Veterinary Clinic Bear, a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, was released months ...
A critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle named Bear has returned to the ocean, months after she was discovered stranded on the Australian shoreline. Back in December, Bear was found covered in ...