A 3D scan of Charlotte's shell gave engineers an early sense of the shape they would need to create. But it was harder to land on a design and material that would help the sea turtle.

A green sea turtle before vs. after experts cleaned barnacles and other organisms off its shell in April 2025. When she was first rescued, she weighed over 7 ½ pounds.

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.

All species of sea turtle are protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, and breaking that law could lead to jail time and fines up to $15,000. According to Wilson, that initial ...

A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health. The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014.

[Related: 150 million-year-old turtle ‘pancake’ found in Germany.] The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast.