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Jeff George, the curator at the nonprofit Sea Turtle Inc. holds Allison, a three-year-old Atlantic Green sea turtle, at Sea Turtle, Inc., in South Padre Island, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. Allison lost three of her flippers to a predator attack and is being evaluated for experimental prosthesis for a rear flipper. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) |
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Allison, a three-year-old Atlantic Green sea turtle, swims in a holding tank at Sea Turtle, Inc., in South Padre Island, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The turtle was missing three flippers when tourists found her two years ago and took her to Sea Turtle Inc., a turtle hospital started by a local woman 31 years ago to treat and return injured sea turtles to the wild. Her caregivers and a group of volunteers hope to make her what's believed to be the first sea turtle fitted with a prosthetic flipper. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Jeff George the curator at the nonprofit Sea Turtle Inc., holds Allison, a three-year-old Atlantic Green sea turtle, at Sea Turtle, Inc., in South Padre Island, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. When tourists found the green sea turtle two years ago she was bloody and missing three of her flippers. A group of veterinary and medical professionals _ including an assistant professor at the world-renowned University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Dental Branch in Houston _ have volunteered to help fit a prosthetic flipper to her left rear side. 11:33 p.m. ET, 2/27/08 |
