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By placing 3D-printed eggs with GPS trackers in nesting grounds, poachers who scoop up decoys unwittingly provide information for conservationists and law enforcement. John Yang reports.

A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health. The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014.

W hen marine biologist Christine Figgener filmed her team removing a plastic straw stuck in a sea turtle’s nose in August 2015, she says she had no idea how much it would resonate with the world ...

This Sea Turtle With A Fork Stuck In Its Nose Demonstrates The Problem With Non-Biodegradable Plastic Stacey Ritzen News & Culture Writer Twitter December 9, 2015 ...

This Sea Turtle With A Fork Stuck In Its Nose Is Exactly Why We Need To Recycle A graphic video shows researchers pulling the fork from the animal's nostril on a beach in Costa Rica. By Samantha Guff ...

She's not sure how the straw ended up in the male's nose, but the sea turtle expert thinks it could have swallowed the straw at some point, gagged on it, and then tried to throw it back up.