Twisting about energetically in a tank of water at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center on Thursday, a loggerhead sea turtle never showed any signs of two considerable fractures in his shell — let alone a ...
A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo Miami’s new Sea Turtle Hospital, where veterinarians were able to save more than 100 of her eggs after she was ...
Sedensky writes for the Associated Press. MARATHON, FLA. — The turtles at this waterfront hospital have been hit by boat propellers, caught in fishing nets, attacked by sharks, stricken with tumors ...
“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...
MANCHESTER, England and GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient ...