March 6 - Sea Turtle Release

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