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Colorado made a splash in the turtle world on September 5 as he dove back into the ocean about 10 miles north of Marathon. Turtle Hospital[…]

On August 29th we received a call from William Coles, PhD from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands with a very sick 123lb female hawksbill sea turtle[…]

Yesterday was a busy day at The Turtle Hospital.  Three of our turtle patients were pulled from their rehab tanks for medical examinations, two of[…]

    Tropical Storm Isaac swept through theFlorida Keysmid-day yesterday, August 26, but The Turtle Hospital was already well-prepared.  Anticipating a CAT 1 hurricane in[…]

  Our “party girl,” a nearly 200-lb loggerhead named Fiesta, has been through a lot these past few months.  The survivor of a boat hit,[…]

A family of four gradeschool siblings visited The Turtle Hospital last month on a visit to the Florida Keys with Mom and Dad.  The family[…]

On August 18, 2012, The Turtle Hospital received a call from a man named Bryan and his family who came across a large turtle floating on[…]

“Straight circle” sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s a term we’re becoming accustomed to here at The Turtle Hospital.  Two months ago, we welcomed juvenile[…]

‘Fisher’, a post-hatchling Loggerhead, hatched from her egg one year ago on August 17, 2011. Fisher weighed in at a whopping 18.56 grams after emerging from[…]

The Turtle Hospital welcomed 9 hatchlings today, late bloomers who were lethargic out of the nest.  At only one-day old, each is about the size of a[…]

Colorado, a 170 lb. Adult male Loggerhead sea turtle, was struck by a boat and found floating north of Knock em’ Down Key in late March[…]

Yesterday afternoon, The Turtle Hospital received a phone call from a man named John regarding a floating loggerhead.  John and a crew of friends and[…]