BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — The Coastal Stewards released a small but strong-willed sea turtle named Sadie back to the ocean after she had washed back to shore. The non-profit said the turtle has ...

A female sea turtle returns to the same beach (within about 30 miles) of where she hatched out as a baby, ... usually the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ...

A U.N. environmental agency says Sargassum originates in the 2-million-square-mile Sargasso Sea. ... Green sea turtles use Sargassum mats as nurseries and loggerhead sea turtles use the seaweed ...

Turtle specialist Archie Carr declared this hiatus the sea turtles' "lost year" and speculated in 1987, shortly before he died, that the turtles spent it in the Sargasso. Over the last decade, ...

Where young sea turtles grew up was a scientific mystery until tracking technology found them floating on mats of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea. The new knowledge could help governments protect the ...

The Sargasso Sea is bounded not by land but by four powerful currents—the North Atlantic Current, Canary Current, North Equatorial Current, and Antilles Current—which form a gyre that corrals ...

The wildlife-rich Sargasso Sea is a “Wild West” of industrial fishing and shipping, Greenpeace has warned as it called for the region to be made an ocean sanctuary. Greenpeace research ...

You might not have heard of the Sargasso Sea. But you’ve probably heard of the Bermuda Triangle. S torms from the multiple ocean currents around this part of the North Atlantic have reportedly ...

You might not have heard of the Sargasso Sea. But you’ve probably heard of the Bermuda Triangle. S torms from the multiple ocean currents around this part of the North Atlantic have reportedly ...

Another huge patch of seaweed from the Sargasso Sea is floating towards Caribbean and South Florida beaches. Scientists are trying to predict where and when it will reach the shore.

The Sargasso Sea is typically composed of little islands of sargassum that allow a very diverse ecosystem to exist. The algae floats on the surface, aided by small round sacs filled with gas.

When reporting a sea turtle in need not during business hours, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a 24-hour stranding hotline, which can be reached at 1-888-404-3922.