Pacific Northwest; Green sea turtle rescued from Newport beach, doing well. Updated: Jun. 27, 2012, 1:01 a.m. Jun. 27, 2012, 1:01 a.m.

A 25-pound snapping turtle with a “head the size of a baseball” was found wandering through a pasture in Harrisburg, Ore. on April 28, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

A rare sea turtle was found dead after it washed ashore on an Oregon beach with a whole ecosystem traveling with the reptile. The 75-pound loggerhead was discovered Saturday morning on th… ...

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staff and veterinarians are working to revive a huge green sea turtle found last Monday evening on in Newport, its body temperature 15 to 20 degrees below normal. Workers are hydrating the turtle ...

Moreover, the alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in the United States. It can weigh at least 220 pounds and an unverified report from Kansas, in 1937, placed the weight of ...

Necropsy Scheduled After Body of 'Rare' 75 lb Turtle Washes Up in Oregon. Published Mar 22, 2023 at 10:47 AM EDT Updated Mar 22, 2023 at 9:21 PM EDT. By .

Most sea turtles found on the shores of Oregon and Washington do not survive, even if they are quickly recovered. Those that do survive are taken to one of two licensed rehabilitation facilities ...

Live gooseneck barnacles, skeleton shrimp, and nudibranchs were found inside the shell of a dead turtle that washed ashore on the Oregon coast on March 18, 2023. This photo shows a nudibranch.

A sea turtle that was rescued from frigid Northwest waters and treated at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport is catching a ride back to California on a Coast Guard training flight.

Oregon health advisory board member uses ‘they/them/turtle’ pronouns By . Natalie O'Neill. Published March 13, 2025, 2:25 a.m. ET.