Cold stun events cause sea turtles to lose their mobility and ability to regulate their body temperature. Sea Turtle Inc. is working to rescue turtles impacted by the freezing temperatures.
However, that didn’t stop him and Scott Gunvordahl from searching for cold-stunned sea turtles. “Brutal. Not so bad when you’re going with the wind, but coming against the wind at 30 ...
Hundreds of dead, vulnerable sea turtles washed up on South Asian beaches last week near the city of Chennai, India. These turtles were identified as olive ridley turtles, an endangered species ...
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Sea Turtle Inc. is preparing for a second and more intense cold-stunned turtle influx this winter season. Sea Turtle Inc. is urgently preparing and ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- After more than a week under the care of the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research and the Houston Zoo veterinary department, more than 40 sea turtles were returned to the ...
Photo from N.E.S.T. The Network for Endangered Sea Turtles (N.E.S.T.), N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island, and Coast Guardsmen from Station Hatteras Inlet recently teamed up to release a total of 25 ...
(AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BENGALURU, India (AP) — Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India’s east coast ...
KERKENNAH, Tunisia – On a barge hundreds of metres off the Kerkennah Islands in southern Tunisia, a group of students watches intently as Besma, a recovering sea turtle, shuffles towards the ...
Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...
The Yellow-Spotted River Turtle, Podocnemis unifilis (Troschel,1848), has a wide distribution within the Amazon region and is generalist in its nesting site choice. Monitoring the nesting habits of ...
Aquarists Ryan Schmidt and Andrew Johnson measure a green sea turtle taken in by the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher following a cold-stunning event off the coast of North Carolina (Photo ...