Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Turtle-y awesome news! It was a second chance at life for 12 green sea turtles as we released them back into the Gulf of Mexico thanks to our partnership between Houston Zoo and Texas A&M University Galveston’s Campus Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research. The sea turtles were found cold stunned in Galveston and Matagorda Bays during the subfreezing temperatures in January and spent a month and a half under Houston Zoo veterinary care. Read more: bit.ly/3PaHRyY