Non-native species have been occasionally discovered along Oregon's frigid coastal waters. Two endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles have washed ashore on nearby beaches this past week. One discovered in Lincoln City didn't make it, but another is likely to survive and be released into more suitable habitat in the future.
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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.