Globe-trotting turtle returns to sea after long rehab

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 18:30 in Biology & Nature

A world-traveling sea turtle found stranded in the Netherlands is back home in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday  after three long years of rest and rehabilitation. The endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle was found frigid and near-dead off the coast of the Netherlands in 2008, thousands of miles from the Gulf waters these turtles call home.

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