"With amenities such as picnic areas, restrooms, and hiking trails, it's an ideal spot for families and nature enthusiasts ...

The Palm Beaches may not be the seashell capital of the world like Sanibel Island, but don't let that stop you. Here's where ...

A massive loggerhead sea turtle that was hit by a boat off Florida's Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital in need of ...

A marine mollusk uses calcium carbonate from the surrounding sea to build its shell ... at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Florida’s Sanibel Island. The scientists couldn’t ...

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her ...

Sea turtles lay about 80 to 120 eggs. There are five Florida sea turtle species ... turtle nest was spotted on Feb. 19 near Hutchinson Island and was made by a leatherback turtle in St. Lucie ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

A baby green turtle (left) and a baby loggerhead (right), excavated by conservationists in Florida. Each March, sea turtle nesting ... the loss of dunes on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County ...

Charlotte was taken in for care in Jekyll Island, Ga., in 2008. He then passed from the Georgia Sea ... the Florida Keys shortly after he arrived there in 1989. His dramatically deformed shell ...

The world's first "Theme Park Under the Sea" will officially open its doors to visitors in Legoland Florida on Sunday. Sea Life Florida merges the wonders of ocean exploration with the excitement ...

"FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO) Andy Newman MARATHON, Fla. — A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle ... barnacles encrusted on her shell. Her rescue came just ...

The first animals have joined the tanks at the upcoming Sea Life Florida Aquarium in Winter Haven. Among the initial inhabitants are a black-tip reef shark named Pretzel, who was born and raised ...