The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

Rich Reichmuth helps clean sea turtle shell at rehabilitation center in Georgia Fox News chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth learns about treatment received for sea turtles at the rehabilitation center ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...