Crews at a wildlife refuge in Palm Beach County spotted a gator walking across a road with a turtle latched in its teeth.

The tough-to-recognize creature was identified as an endangered loggerhead sea turtle, and it even had barnacles stuck to its tongue, according to the Galveston-based Gulf Center for Sea Turtle ...

The juvenile loggerhead sea turtle was covered in layers of a variety of algae, acorn barnacles, gooseneck barnacles, worms, ...

Some beach accesses will be closed as the county tills beach sand to prepare for nesting season, which begins May 1.