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 ...

At first glance, Molly looks like any other loggerhead sea turtle, her reddish-brown shell moving gracefully through the water as she pops her nose up for air. But just two weeks ago, Molly arrived at ...

A cold-stunned Kemp's ridley sea turtle lays in the sand with seaweed piled on top of it to keep it warm before the arrival of people from Mass Audubon on the scene at Great Hallow beach in Cape Cod ...

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 adult female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed ashore near Beach Pocket Park #3 in Galveston on March 7, triggering an urgent rescue effort along the Texas Gulf Coast. The turtle — the world’s ...