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 ...

Beatbot is best known for making pool-cleaning robots, but it was its swimming robot turtle that won our hearts at CES 2026.

"It took him a while but once he got going, he was moving at great speed," said one caregiver of Lou's swimming Just keep swimming! On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre on ...

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 ...

Oman might not be the first country that comes to mind for tropical adventures, but it completely surprised us. We set out to ...

Eleven leatherback turtles are swimming across the Pacific Ocean to the Galapagos Islands in a "race" that will be tracked online to draw attention to the plight of the critically endangered creatures ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her flipper years ago after getting entangled in a fishing net. It left her largely immobile and highly stressed in captivity. But - thanks to science - she can finally swim ...

Late November has three important seasonal events happening in the region as we move toward winter. I expect the ground to freeze during these chilly days. Also responding to the colder temperatures, ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and nesting ...

When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

This is the moment a disabled sea turtle swam for the first time after being given a prosthetic flipper. Rocky was fitted with the custom-made limb after spending close to two decades struggling to ...

The North Suburban YMCA’s Special Olympics swim team, the “Flying Turtles,” recently finished its 2024 season at the Special Olympics Summer Games at Illinois State University in Bloomington/Normal.