They recover another cage they say has been at the bottom of the ocean for a year — aging wine from various wineries. The recovered bottles are covered with barnacles and sea creatures in the cages.

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common ...