When Connecticut families plan their spring break escapes, they’re increasingly skipping the airport lines and Florida crowds ...

The nearby Mystic Aquarium offers close encounters with beluga whales, sea lions, and countless other marine creatures. Downtown Mystic itself deserves unhurried exploration, with its independent ...

Maritime Aquarium, Mystic Aquarium, Adventure Aquarium and New England Aquarium were nominated for USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.

Mystic Aquarium has over 300 species of animals, including beluga whales, penguins, sharks and giant octopus, its website adds. Joe Tucci is a digital producer from Hearst Connecticut Media whose ...

MYSTIC, CT (WFSB) - The Mystic Aquarium said it admitted eight seals in the last few weeks. According to Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue program, six of the eight seals were found entangled.

Mystic Aquarium released 22 sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, April 9, in Jekyll Island, Georgia, according to a facility. The marine animals—14 green sea turtles, six ...

"Call us bananas, but there's not Chiquita in these boxes...they're turtles!" Mystic Aquarium staff traveled to Georgia earlier this week to help release nearly two dozen rehabilitated sea turtles ...

Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium released 22 sea turtles that were found cold-stunned and stranded on Cape Cod back into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday. Mystic Aquarium rehabilitated 14 green sea ...

WESTBROOK — A harp seal that was seen traveling between New London and Westbrook died at the Mystic Aquarium because of a health issue last week, an official said, but not before he left a last ...

Twenty-two cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued from Cape Cod and rehabilitated at Mystic Aquarium. The turtles, representing three endangered species, were released into the Atlantic Ocean off ...