This week alone, in collaboration with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission and other partners, Mote Marine Laboratory & ...
On Florida’s east coast, offshore Nassau and Volusia counties, an ongoing cold-stunning event has harmed about 120 green sea ...
According to NOAA, cold-stunning is a condition where sea turtles become very weak or inactive after being exposed to cold ...
Dozens of sea turtles were rescued from freezing cold water, and now they are fighting to stay alive at the Florida ...
An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning.
PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (WFLA)– The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and Wildlife Research Institute released more than 1,200 turtles back into the waters. With the cold temperatures ...
What's more, it seemed to the first responders that the terapin lacked certain mutations and ninja-like agility common in ...
Some 30 cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued as temperatures on the Gulf Coast plummeted to historic lows this week.
Doctor Debborah Luke is the Senior Vice President of Conservation at the Florida ... $15,000 per turtle. “Everything that goes into that $15,000 is a drop in the bucket for a species that ...
If cold-stunned sea turtles aren’t rescued from the low temperatures, they can develop harmful health conditions or even die ...
Just last week, 18 cold-stunned turtles were rescued from frigid waters near St. Augustine and later taken in by Florida Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center near Tampa. The green sea ...