The Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) is the official state sea turtle of Texas.

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.

World’s rarest, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was found stranded on a Texas beach covered in strange green fur. Its green fur appearance raised concern among scientists who worked to rescue and ...

A tiny loggerhead turtle hatchling found on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast is recovering at uShaka Sea World after being rescued covered in barnacles.

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 ...

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 ...