Sea Turtle Receives Experimental Surgery

Veterinarians successfully completed experimental skull surgery on a green sea turtle Thursday at N.C. State University in Raleigh. They say the turtle, which is too young to easily tell its gender, needed the operation to close a three-inch gash to the head that had exposed the protective membrane sheathing its tiny brain.

The turtle called Holden III washed up a month ago on Holden Beach…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nc-state-veterinarians-perform-experimental-surgery-to-repair-endangered-sea-turtles-skull/2012/07/19/gJQAhztywW_story.html

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