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.

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 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 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.

Nickel, a green sea turtle rescued near Goodland, Florida, swims the waters of the Shedd Aquarium’s Caribbean Reef exhibit in its debut in 2003. Volunteer diver Stephanie Baranko, right, is seen ...