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.

The Turtle Hospital At first glance, Molly looks like any other loggerhead sea turtle, her reddish-brown shell moving ...

A loggerhead sea turtle is set to return to the wild near the Azores after rescuers found her covered in barnacles following a storm in 2023. Barnacle Bill washed ashore in Guernsey and was initially ...

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 ...

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 ...