The Cool Down on MSN

Scientists studying sea snakes off Costa Rica find tiny crab larvae hitching rides

"On almost the first snake we caught, this little crab fell off." ...
Gentleman's Pursuits on MSN

Ghost traps are silently devastating America's fisheries

The Ghost Trap Crisis Haunting America's Fisheries — and the Program Fighting Back Somewhere along the seafloor off Midcoast Maine, a lobster trap sits in darkness. It has no owner. No one is coming ...

A Turtle with a Bright Blue Shell Was Found in Kentucky. Now Wildlife Experts Are Racing to Undo the Damage

The Eastern box turtle was found with a bright blue shell — and a layer of red paint underneath, suggesting she’d been ...

Officials make dramatic move to save rare sea turtle eggs from Hurricane Polo threat

A strong hurricane projected to impact Southern California this weekend forced scientists to scramble to collect rare sea turtle eggs on beaches and remove them from harm’s way. Officials with U.S.
fisheries.noaa.gov

First-Ever Nesting Olive Ridley Sea Turtles in California

Two female olive ridley turtles emerged onto beaches in Orange County to lay eggs, bringing together agencies and community partners, and raising public awareness. An olive ridley sea turtle was ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Sea Turtles Were Spotted Nesting on the U.S. West Coast. Scientists Say the ‘Super’ El Niño Could Have Brought Them There

Left: An olive ridley turtle nesting near the Huntington Beach Pier. Right: Eggs laid near Seal Beach. Left: Huntington Beach Fire Department. Right: NOAA Fisheries. Both via Facebook This month, ...
Orange County Register

Nesting olive ridley sea turtle off OC beaches is a first recorded for West Coast

At first, it seemed as if the sea turtle was injured. But responders to the wayward olive ridley sea turtle realized the creature wasn’t hurt, rather she was laying eggs on the sand, the first natural ...
CBS News

Two-headed turtle found on Cape Cod in "especially rare case"

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...
ScienceBlog

A 15-year-old in Ontario built an underwater robot with turtle flippers instead of a propeller, because a propeller stirs sediment and scares off the very animals it is sent to ...

The insight arrived on a camping trip. Evan Budz, 15, of Burlington, Ontario, was watching a snapping turtle move through the water, and what struck him was how little it disturbed — no wake, barely a ...
WSVN

Hope floats: Loggerhead released off Marathon after treatment at Turtle Hospital

MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - A sea turtle has been released into the waters off Marathon after undergoing months of treatment. The 150-pound loggerhead sea turtle, named Hope, was rescued in early June ...
AOL

In a first, olive ridley turtles spotted nesting on California’s beaches

An olive ridley sea turtle was observed laying eggs near Seal Beach in California on 16 September 2026.Photograph: City of Huntington Beach via Facebook A sea turtle crawled out of the surf in ...