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 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 ...
A Lewes nonprofit is asking boaters to report sightings of an injured loggerhead sea turtle in the Indian River Bay. The endangered turtle has noticeable algae, barnacles and a rear shell injury. MERR ...
Three rehabilitated green sea turtles were released into the ocean on Tuesday after months of care at the South Carolina ...
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 ...