RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A team of 10 doctors and their assistants crowd around an operating table. An anesthesiologist warns Dr. Greg Lewbart that his patient’s heart rate has dropped to 35 beats per ...

Molly, a 170-pound loggerhead turtle, was released back into the ocean after a surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor that was just inches away from her head. NBC News' George Solis reports on the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Animal care staff at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center were kept busy Thursday morning. The crew spent most of the morning performing surgery to remove a hook from the ...

KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. (WSVN) - A rescued marine reptile was returned to the waters of Key Biscayne by the team at Zoo Miami. Zoo officials found a juvenile green sea turtle, named Pumpkin Spice, tangled ...

MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - A big sea turtle was in big trouble down in the Florida Keys and had to undergo emergency surgery. One of the marine reptile’s front flippers had to be amputated at The Turtle ...

WAIMANALO, Hawaii (Island News) -- Humans undergo surgery every day but now, one of Hawaii’s endangered sea turtles is getting the same chance at survival. For the first time ever, a life-saving ...

'This is the best possible outcome for the twin turtles,' the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke said of the hatchlings' operation Two eastern Box turtles were born as conjoined twins at ...

Bank the green sea turtle flapped her flippers with vigor in her first swim after a life-saving operation to remove a heavy mass of swallowed coins from her stomach. Veterinarians in Bangkok put the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An animal ambassador at Nahant Marsh Education Center in Davenport is going through a tough time. Oneida the turtle is an ornate ...