The Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) is the official state sea turtle of Texas.

This endangered sea turtle was found in rough shape on a Texas beach. What happened next is giving researchers hope.

A massive Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the world’s smallest and most critically endangered sea turtle species — washed ashore on a Galveston, Texas, beach on March 7, 2026, launching an emergency rescue ...

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.

Three rehabilitated green sea turtles were released into the ocean on Tuesday after months of care at the South Carolina Aquarium, marking the aquarium’s first sea turtle release of 2026.

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In reality ...

After months of careful treatment and recovery, three young green sea turtles glided back into the ocean this week, marking ...