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 ...

"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 ...

Eleven leatherback turtles are swimming across the Pacific Ocean to the Galapagos Islands in a "race" that will be tracked online to draw attention to the plight of the critically endangered creatures ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her left flipper years ago after she got stuck in a fishing net. She was left immobile — until a team of researchers in Thailand fitted her with the country's first ...

In the clear waters surrounding Apo Island, sea turtles move freely through coral reefs shaped by decades of protection. This ...

Hector Salazar, a Venezuelan-American who has lived in Charleston for over 20 years, shared his thoughts following the U.S. military operation to strike Caracas Local organizations plan anti-war ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her flipper years ago after getting entangled in a fishing net. It left her largely immobile and highly stressed in captivity. But - thanks to science - she can finally swim ...

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai turtle Goody lost her left flipper years ago after she was entangled in a fishing net, leaving her immobile and stressed out in captivity. But now Goody, an ...

This is the moment a disabled sea turtle swam for the first time after being given a prosthetic flipper. Rocky was fitted with the custom-made limb after spending close to two decades struggling to ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and nesting ...

When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...