Porkchop, a three-flippered sea turtle, is back in the wild after a year of rehabilitation, a hopeful moment amid ongoing ...

"It took him a while but once he got going, he was moving at great speed," said one caregiver of Lou's swimming Just keep swimming! On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre on ...

Thirty five miles into the Gulf, the chase is on. Wildlife agents and turtles are swimming into deep trouble, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann. A green sea turtle pulled out of the Gulf ...

The turtle, named Porkchop, was rescued in March 2025 from tangled fishing line wrapped around its flipper, keeping it from swimming away.

Remarkable and stunning images show the first time that a disabled sea turtle was able to swim after being fitted with a prosthetic flipper. Rocky, who is between 25 and 30 years old, had been using a ...

Life looked grim for Yu, a loggerhead turtle, when she washed up in a Japanese fishing net five years ago, her front flippers shredded after a brutal encounter with a shark. Now keepers at an aquarium ...

Prosthetic rubber fins have given a turtle injured in a shark attack a new lease of life. Yu, a loggerhead turtle, lost her front flippers in 2008, but is now enjoying her prosthetic fins, having ...

Bigger is better, if you're a leatherback sea turtle. For the first time, researchers have measured the forces that act on a swimming animal and the energy the animal must expend to move through the ...

That reaction is common among Buzzards Bay boaters startled to observe sea turtles swimming alongside their vessels, said Karen Dourdeville of Marion, coordinator of the Sea Turtle Sightings Hotline, ...

MADISON, Wis. — Bigger is better, if you're a leatherback sea turtle. For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the National ...