After another sea turtle trek from the Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass., the rescue team released a few more sea turtles from last year's stranding season. All together, four loggerhead sea turtles and five Kemp's ridley sea turtles scrapped their way down the beach on Assateague Island in Maryland and finally swam home in the Atlantic Ocean. ...

We shared some heartwarming still pictures of the sea turtle release in Florida earlier this week. See those pictures here and here. And here's one last look at the peaceful moment when these endangered animals swam off into the sunrise.[embedded content] This is what it's all about.Thank you to all the volunteers and hard-working staff on the Aquarium's...

See Part 1 of this turtle trek, preparations for an epic road trip! While Bostonians were shrugging snow off their shoulders on Monday, the turtle rescue team was curling their toes in Florida sands as their flippered patients shambled toward the ocean. Today marked a milestone in the second largest turtle rescue season on record at the New England...

On Saturday, members of the Aquarium's Marine Animal Rescue Team awoke early and prepared more than a dozen turtles for an epic road trip down the East Coast from Quincy, MA, to warmer waters down south. These sea turtles were among the very last patients from our second busiest turtle rescue season. And they were on their way home. Here are a couple...

Nine more turtles are on their way to the Animal Care Center today—including eight of the larger loggerheads. The season continues to break records with latest live admissions of Kemp's ridley and loggerhead turtles. Not only is the timing of this season unusual, this is our second-largest stranding season ever. In a normal sea turtle stranding season,...

To date, nearly 300 sea turtles that have washed up on the beaches of Cape Cod Bay have been admitted to the Aquarium’s sea turtle hospital since early November, making it our second-largest stranding season ever.  On top of planning transports, doing laundry and arranging for volunteers, stranding season is a blur of sea turtle exams. For such an...