Scientists sacrifice delicious opossums to fight Florida’s invasive pythons

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...
Post and Courier

Ambassador turtle from Greenville’s Conestee Nature Preserve is missing, feared stolen or released

GREENVILLE — Conestee Nature Preserve is pleading for help as it searches for a missing animal ambassador, a juvenile box turtle named Michelle. About the size of a silver dollar, Michelle disappeared ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Rescuers save huge sea turtle discovered stranded upside down on Coffs Coast beach

A large sea turtle weighing more than 50 kilograms has been rescued from a Urunga beach. The turtle was discovered stranded upside down in the dunes by a passer-by. The female turtle will be ...
People

Rare Sea Turtle Returns to the Wild Months After Being Found 'Gravely Unwell' and Covered in Barnacles

"Every single Hawksbill sea turtle is precious … we must protect them from extinction," said the Bermagui Veterinary Clinic Mudgeroo Wombat & Wildlife Refuge/Facebook Bear, a critically endangered ...
BBC Wildlife

“It’s a bit like sea turtle forensics." Scientists looked inside 24 turtles – and uncovered secrets from the past

Sea turtles are the oceans’ wanderers. They live for up to a hundred years, and meander hundreds of thousands of miles. The reptiles grow continuously through life, and as they do, their shell grows ...
WLRN

A 3-limbed Kemp's ridley sea turtle is now being tracked at sea by satellite

An adult female Kemp's ridley sea turtle is seen swimming in a tank at Loggerhead Marinelife Center after a satellite tracking device was attached to its shell in Juno Beach, Fla. on Tuesday, March 24 ...
CBS News

Amputee sea turtle being tracked at sea from space

Juno Beach, Fla. — The veterinary staff at a Florida sea turtle hospital is getting help from space to monitor the animals they've rehabilitated. They're particularly interested in amputees. Using ...