A lone hawksbill turtle approaches Jim Luecke, Maui Ocean Center’s assistant curator, during a dive off Maui’s southern coastline. Hawksbill sightings are extremely rare in Maui waters.

A lot of hands kind of went into helping this turtle get the treatment it needed so I think it’s cool for everyone to be here to see him swim away and go on and live the rest of his ...

A Disney star has apologized to the people of Hawaii after a video showing her touching an endangered sea turtle on a Maui ... I adore these beautiful turtles, and the people of Hawaii.

Loggerhead sea turtles ... States and in Hawaii. Following one successful lawsuit, longline fishing for swordfish was prohibited along the West Coast. In another successful effort, we compelled the ...

Maui Ocean Center veterinarian Paul McCurdy examines a green sea turtle patient at MOC Marine Institute. MOC Marine Institute Photos / NOAA Permit: 21260. Fishery interactions made up the majority ...

HONOLULU — A social media post from an “anonymous participant” on a Hawaii-based Facebook page shows a dead green sea turtle with its shell missing. So far the post, which can’t be ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

From Left: China Anne McClain; and a green sea turtle ...