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.
NORTH CAROLINA, USA — A young green sea turtle was recently discovered stranded along Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The seashore’s Resource Management team transported her to the Sea Turtle ...
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Sea turtle rescue underway as cold-stunned animals arrive at Brevard Zoo
As temperatures begin to rise after a recent freeze, the Brevard Zoo is working to rescue and treat dozens of cold-stunned ...
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She was covered in barnacles and barely moving - but they never gave up on her
Serena’s shell was smothered with barnacles, her body weak from infection and exhaustion. Many turtles don’t make it this far. But this rescue team believed in her. They gave her warmth, space, care — ...
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 ...
In many cases, they are covered in barnacles and algae, a sign that the animals have been too weak to swim normally.
It’s common for slow-moving sea creatures to become heavily encrusted, but something alive that washed ashore in Texas is being called a worst-case scenario. The tough-to-recognize creature was ...
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