Think you were cold? More than 100 sea turtles were rescued in waters around Florida amid a historic winter storm that ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission documented over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtle rescues within six days.

More than 1,200 sea turtles were rescued in northern Florida following a significant cold-stunning event in mid-January.

Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission rescued dozens of sea turtles as freezing temperatures compromised the ...

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (WFLA)– The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and Wildlife Research Institute released more than 1,200 turtles back into the waters. With the cold temperatures ...

The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned ...

2025 In addition to FWC, the Sea Turtle Hospital at UF Whitney Lab performed a series of "exhausting and relentless" rescues that saw 100 sea turtles taken from cold waters and transferred to ...

"Our hospital shifted into full emergency mode to triage cold-stunned green sea turtles," a social media post from the lab read, calling the mission "exhausting and relentless." Each morning, FWC ...

Florida’s northern coast was recently hit with a rare cold weather event, affecting over 1,200 sea turtles in the St. Joseph Bay area between Jan. 21 and 26. The FWC reported that nearly all of ...