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A rare loggerhead turtle found "cold-stunned" after coastal storms is preparing to return to the sea after seven months of recovery and rehabilitation.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

On Sept. 16, Huntington Beach Fire Department Marine Safety lifeguards were notified of a sea turtle sighting near Seal Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sam has a bachelor's degree from Brown University and lives in New York with his wife, their two children and his childhood pet turtle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

After getting married, Lucas gifted Hobson a Banksy, concrete wall and all, to sit across from a prehistoric turtle he got her while they were dating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

It had worked for the turtle, after all.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

Loggerhead turtles, external are the most common turtle in the Mediterranean and typically nest on beaches from Greece and Turkey to Israel and Libya.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Nesting populations of olive ridley sea turtles are found in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Paleontologists have not found fossils of lizards, turtles, crocodiles, or other reptiles from Cretaceous Alaska, Chiarenza said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

There has been a string of recent high-profile arrests, including a July raid that rescued a leaf monkey, a gibbon and hundreds of turtles, as well as multiple interceptions at airports.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

All up and down the coastline, female turtles come out of the ocean and paddle their way across the sand, dig a hole, and lay eggs—about a hundred at a time.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

I skate low, torso over toes, head turtled forward.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

She spends most of her time turtled in bed.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2015

They turtled at first, then they quit, wallowing in self-pity and requiring emergency spine implants.

From Chicago Tribune ● May 8, 2012

I yanked the cuffs of my sweatshirt down as far as they would go, picked up my board and turtled into the collar of my jacket as the lady hurried across the street.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Art was with the same Mr. Dunwoody whose car Pluto Noak’d turtled over last year.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

At the last second, both instead ducked for cover, turtling with their arms around their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Far Tortuga is a treatise on turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the afternoon, the boats and turtling party, at the S.E. part of the island, all returned on board, except a seaman belonging to the Discovery, who had been missing two days.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

Then, while the Swiftsure kept station to watch for any turtling craft that might sound the alarm, Winston hoisted the Defiance's new sails and headed on past the Point, directly along the coast.

From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

The natives must have left the island either on account of its being now the turtling season, or else from the want of water.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray