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Surveyors on Queensland s Lady Elliot Island have merely glimpsed a few albino hatchlings but never a grown-up. Jessica Buckman is familiar with locating crawlers when she stride to Queensland s Lady Elliot Island to check newly hatched green turtle nests.
But the little pink creature she discovers in the neck of one nest on Monday was different from a normal discovery - an unusual albino hatchling that was having slight difficulty digging itself out.
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Buckman said to Guardian Australis from the Great Barrier Reef s southernmost coral cay, I brought out a bit of sand and she or a he was at the center of it. I was very surprised, It was quite extraordinary to witness.