The turtle with a straw in its nose: The story behind the viral video
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The turtle with a straw in its nose: The story behind the viral video
In 2015, Texas A&M graduate student Christine Figgener traveled to Costa Rica to study ridley sea turtles for her doctoral dissertation. While examining one male turtle, she and her colleagues found a long plastic straw lodged in the turtle’s nostril. Her video of the team extracting the straw has received more than 5.5 million views on ...
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