The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...

Oceans are nature's beauties best left untouched, especially the shores. The shores, dusted in powdery Sun-baked sand, are often dotted with dry dunes, rocky cliffs, and clusters of pebbles slick with ...

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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.

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled sea ...

The British oil company Shell reportedly has suspended all shipments through the Red Sea indefinitely amid the ongoing Houthi attacks from Yemen on commercial vessels on the key global trade route.

Wael Sawan, Shell’s chief executive, says in an interview with WSJ’s Jenny Strasburg at Davos that the company’s decision today to suspend shipping in the Red Sea is affecting costs.

Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to ...

With their wide stretches of sand, the beaches along North Carolina's coast are perfect for social distancing - the new normal in 2020. And while social distancing may have cancelled traditional ...