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A Rare Sea Turtle Traveled 5,000 Miles and Got Slathered in KY Jelly. Now He’s Finally Going Home.

Kemp’s ridley turtles are some of the rarest sea turtles on Earth and have been endangered in the United States since 1970.

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Humans seem preternaturally drawn to stories of animals surviving long journeys across a city, state, or country. Those Homeward Bound movies probably had something to do with it. Today, we have one such story, this one involving a rare sea turtle that traveled roughly 5,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to Wales.

As The Guardian reports, Rhossi, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, was found just barely clinging to life on a Welsh beach back in December 2023. He was nearly immobile from the cold and weighed just two........

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