Houston Chronicle

Rare sea turtle discovery on the Texas coast sparks rescue

A sea turtle resembling something out of a sci-fi horror film was rescued along the Texas coast this weekend after washing ashore sick and heavily encrusted with marine life. Early Saturday morning, ...
Us Weekly

Endangered Sea Turtle Washed Ashore Covered in Barnacles. Now She’s Fighting for Her Life

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 ...
Yahoo

One of the World's Rarest Turtles Washes Up in Texas, Covered in Living Organisms and in Desperate Need of Help

The turtle is now receiving care from the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research and veterinarians from the Houston Zoo "We are hopeful for her recuperation and eventual release back into the Gulf," ...
Yahoo

Massive, Barnacle-Covered Sea Turtle Washed Ashore in Texas and Is Now Fighting to Survive

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cold-stunned Kemp's ridley sea turtle lays in the sand with seaweed piled on top of it to keep it warm before the arrival of ...
People

Rescue Center Reveals Treatment Plan for Ailing Rare Turtle Who Washed Up on Texas Beach Covered in Organisms

The turtle was found covered in organisms on a beach near Galveston, Texas, on March 7 Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers entertainment and human ...
Polygon

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze is still the most fun to be had in a TMNT movie

Now, 1991’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is back in theaters, and, 35 years later, it’s still the most fun to be had with the Turtles on film (especially for those who grew ...
WUFT

In the Santa Fe River, generations don wetsuits to study a global hotspot of turtle diversity

Turtles glide through the blue-green waters of Hornsby Spring like hockey puck slapshots as snorkelers stretch like goalies in their wake. If the brownish-yellow blurs make it behind a cypress root or ...
People

One of the World's Rarest Turtles Washes Up in Texas, Covered in Living Organisms and in Desperate Need of Help

"We are hopeful for her recuperation and eventual release back into the Gulf," officials said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and ...
CNN

This gruesome discovery of nearly 150 dead turtles is a warning for the future

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...
Charlotte Observer

The World's Most Endangered Sea Turtle Just Washed Ashore in Texas. Now It Needs Help

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, ...
Miami Herald

Critically Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Found on Texas Beach in Critical Condition

A Kemp's ridley newborn sea turtle (Lora turtle) makes its way to the sea, as an adult one arrives to lay eggs on Ostional beach, in Ostional National Wildlife Refuge, some 350 km northwest of San ...