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Gov. Scott Releases Mended Sea Turtle Off Keys « CBS Miami. Florida Governor Rick Scott recently made a trip to the Keys where he stopped at[…]

Recovering in a hospital tank can be quite boring for a sea turtle that would normally have all kinds of stimulation from their natural enviornment.[…]

Green sea turtles Mickey and Sekoi and our one resident Kemp’s Ridley, Bender, gained some weight in the past weeks, but not from overeating!  Turtle[…]

Floating under Saddle Bunch #5 Historic Bridge, our newest turtle arrived in good spirits despite being emaciated.  This subadult loggerhead’s rescue required a team effort[…]

Our two loggerhead post-hatchlings, Finn and Fisher, are living large these days.  Both turtles have moved just around the bend from the shallow hatchling tanks[…]

Four-year permanent resident O.D. is packing on the pounds this week with a newly fitted temporary weight belt.  Rehab staff member–and quite the engineer–Gunnar created[…]

Little green Hess has been through a lot–three blood transfusions, tube feeding and a lengthy car ride transfer from Sea World to The Turtle Hospital. […]

Photo by B. Heitman At just over 70 lbs, juvenile loggerhead “Doc” checked in for rehab on April 20.  Doc was found floating off Sombrero[…]

On Wednesday, 18 April, five sea turtles lined up in The Turtle Hospital’s designated “waiting area.”  All of these juvenile greens have external fibropapilloma tumors and were[…]

Another green sea turtle with fibropapilloma tumors arrived at The Turtle Hospital on April 11th.  Eddie was rescued in Sandy Key, found floating and covered[…]

Itty bitty washback post-hatchling, Finn, was found floating in a bed of seagrass on April 11th–with only one fully functional flipper!  This loggerhead is probably[…]

On March 30th, Diver Dave and Rob Zombie were out trying to catch a few more lobster before the season ended; they noticed a young[…]