Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the name may sound silly, bubble butt syndrome (or positive buoyancy syndrome) comes with some serious injuries to a ...

Sea turtles can survive being struck by a boat propeller — but as they heal from the trauma, their shells often change shape, bulging from air building up within their bodies. That throws the animals' ...

Bubble Butt, a green sea turtle who found fame after he survived a 1989 boat strike, died at a turtle hospital in the Florida Keys. He was about 35 years old and known across the world for his ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Three weeks ago, Charlotte Piho captured video of a sea turtle blowing bubbles out of its mouth off Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where she oversees turtle tours. The video taken on ...

A turtle at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut is getting a new lease on life thanks to a 3D prosthetic that will help it keep swimming following an injury it sustained a few years ago. Charlotte, a male ...

The green sea turtle swam the perimeter of her holding tank as if she were building up speed for a race. As she whipped her 100-pound body around the curve, she sloshed water onto her caretakers’ ...

Charlotte, a male green sea turtle, wears a 3D-printed harness to help him overcome "bubble butt syndrome" — a condition caused by a boat strike. Charlotte lives at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.