In a recent study, researchers took drone-based images to map the structure of sea turtle nesting beaches in northern Cyprus to determine their susceptibility to flooding from sea level rise ...

But gluing weights onto the shell isn't a permanent solution — they move as the animals grow and will come off as a sea turtle sheds scutes — the thick plates on its keratin shell, the University of ...

Pestana’s team prepared those files for 3D printing in a process called slicing, where a digital model is divided into very thin layers. Those sliced models were then fed into the Formlabs Fuse ...

Charlotte, the 138-pound green sea turtle, was struck by a boat about 18 years ago. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

A green sea turtle named Charlotte is getting a second chance at swimming normally thanks to a 3D-printed harness meant to address his “bubble butt syndrome.” After the turtle spent years at ...

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.

A sea turtle seriously injured in a boating collision has been given a new lease of life -- and the ability to eat again -- after receiving a 3D-printed prosthetic jaw.. The loggerhead turtle ...

Mashable. A wounded sea turtle swims again thanks to 3D printed harness. Posted: December 17, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025. A wounded sea turtle swims again thanks to 3D printed harness ...

A sea turtle plagued by 'bubble butt’ condition is helped by a 3D printer "Bubble butt" can leave turtles struggling to swim normally — or unable to submerge at all. A 3D-printed harness can help.

Charlotte, a male green sea turtle, wears a 3D-printed harness to help him overcome "bubble butt syndrome" — a condition caused by a boat strike. Charlotte lives at the Mystic Aquarium in ...

Charlotte was taken in for care in Jekyll Island, Ga., in 2008. He then passed from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center to the Mystic Aquarium. Along the way, he was identified as a male.