After more than 40 years on the IUCN Red List as Endangered, the green sea turtle has made one of the most remarkable wildlife recoveries in conservation history, earning a new classification of Least Concern. This inspiring story explores how…
During Sea Turtle Week 2026, Florida’s Loggerhead Marinelife Center celebrated a remarkable first: a sea turtle named “Tini” was genetically confirmed to be an olive ridley sea turtle, marking the first documented olive ridley nesting in Florida history. Olive ridleys…
The Missouri Department of Conservation celebrated the 41st birthday of Peanut, a red-eared slider turtle with a unique figure eight-shaped shell. Her figure-eight shell was the result of crawling into that six-pack ring when she was very young. Read the…
Take a look at this video featuring Whitney Laboratory’s David Duffy, postdoctoral researcher, and Mark Martindale, director, that shares about the University of Florida Sea Turtle Hospital’s work and research on the fibropapilloma virus found in sea turtles.
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