Carole Allen — founder of HEART (Help Endangered Animals Ridley Turtles) and the first director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico office — passed away last week at the age of ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — With the Fourth of July coming up, a lot of Texans are heading to the beach, but unexpected guests are trying to join the party: sea turtles. Sea turtle rehabilitation facilities along the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "With that classification comes regulation around sea turtle response, intake, treatment, and release," said Wendy Knight, CEO of ...

Per NOAA Fisheries, the annual average of Massachusetts cold-stunned turtles in the last five years is 739, compared to 20 years ago when it was only 139. The increase could be due to the Gulf of ...

PADRE ISLAND, Texas - Another 1,700 sea turtles were released back into Gulf waters off the South Texas coast on Tuesday following a record-setting storm that pummeled the state and cold-stunned ...

On Sunday, the first nest of the 2025 season was confirmed on Padre Island National Seashore. The female sea turtle was spotted near the 31-mile marker of the national seashore. She was already tagged ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The weather is warmer, and it is now getting into that time of year where you might see some more turtles or tortoises roaming around. Red-eared sliders, river cooters, three-toed box ...

GALVESTON — The nesting season for the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is ending with zero nests found on either Galveston Island or the Bolivar Peninsula for the first time in at least a decade, ...