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.

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 ...

A turtle was rescued over the weekend (Photo: Caswell Beach Turtle Watch) OAK ISLAND, NC (WWAY) — The Caswell Beach Turtle Watch rescued a turtle from the ocean over the weekend. ‘Glass’ the Green ...

A sea turtle struggling in the ocean off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates caught an amazingly lucky break. In what was surely a chance in a million, a jet skier noticed the ...

A sea turtle's harrowing weekend adventure at Pensacola Beach has finally ended inside the safety of the Gulfarium CARE Center at Fort Walton Beach. A beachgoer posted an image of a 107-pound ...

If you’ve ever seen a video of someone gently scraping off barnacles from a turtle’s shell—or more dramatically, from its mouth—it might have stopped you in your tracks. There’s something incredibly ...

Barnacle cement can withstand pressures of up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The cyprid larva stage creates a biological deadline that dictates permanent attachment failure. Scientists discovered ...