Fishing line and hooks can turn an ordinary day in the water into a life-or-death emergency.

Remarkable and stunning images show the first time that a disabled sea turtle was able to swim after being fitted with a prosthetic flipper. Rocky, who is between 25 and 30 years old, had been using a ...

Following months of rehabilitation, she seems to glance back once before swimming on.

"It took him a while but once he got going, he was moving at great speed," said one caregiver of Lou's swimming Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written ...

Ellen DeGeneres' New Netflix Special Tackles Everything From Her Mega Fame to Emotional Support Animals Veterinarian Chansue also said that "while the prostheses won't help injured turtles become fit ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her left flipper years ago after she got stuck in a fishing net. She was left immobile — until a team of researchers in Thailand fitted her with the country's first ...

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