A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

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 ...

While they look irritating, barnacles generally don't cause much harm to their hosts.

This endangered sea turtle was found in rough shape on a Texas beach. What happened next is giving researchers hope.

A massive Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the world’s smallest and most critically endangered sea turtle species — washed ashore on a Galveston, Texas, beach on March 7, 2026, launching an emergency rescue ...

What passers-by thought was a "sandy rock" was in fact a critically endangered turtle far from home.

The critically endangered sea turtle is now being treated at a Texas rehab hospital.

An endangered sea turtle is recovering after washing ashore on a Texas beach earlier this month. They said the turtle was ...

The turtle was found covered in organisms on a beach near Galveston, Texas, on March 7 ...

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 Kemp's ridley sea turtle swims into the ocean after being released by New England Aquarium biologists in West Dennis, Massachusetts, on July 10, 2024. In 2023, the aquarium treated 394 sea turtles, ...

An adult female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was found weighed down with barnacles, algae and sediment in Galveston on March 7, 2026. An adult female turtle from the most endangered sea turtle species in ...