It was graduation day on Topsail Island Tuesday as 16 rehabilitated sea turtles were returned to the sea.

Something amazing and unexpected happened on the shores of Great Quittacas Pond on Monday.

Bullis Charter School students and teachers will host Stanford University scientist George Shillinger, co-founder of the Great Turtle Race, an international effort to highlight the plight of the leatherback turtle by monitoring its journey across the Paci

The race is on for Mastadona and her nine sea buddies as they speed through the Pacific Ocean to see who's the greatest traveler of them all.

Millions of sea turtles once roamed the Earth's oceans, but now only a small fraction remains. In fact, all seven species of sea turtles in the world are listed as threatened and endangered and protected under the Convention on International Trade in Enda

Volunteers and interns from the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center gathered yesterday morning to release 16 rehabilitated sea turtles.

When I was a bit older, I remember watching a TV show on Green Sea Turtles, and thinking they were the most amazing things I’d ever seen.