mail.com — Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life. But swimming in tight circles is tough for a 5-year-old turtle whose life expectancy is about 150 years. Allison was set straight Wednesday, when researchers outfitted her in a black neoprene suit with a carbon-fiber dorsal fin on
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the1337jordanApr 10, 2009
I, for one, welcome our new carbon-fiber-fitted turtle overlords.
Closed AccountApr 10, 2009
Well I feel a general warmness to animals that I dont have with the rest of apathetic mankind. f**k those poor starving people in Africa, half of it is their fault (the other half the West ofcourse), lets give another chance to an animal with no bad karma.
rkigaApr 10, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P72PTMcS820">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P72PTMcS820</a>still looks like she's just swimming in circles, but at least she can come up for air i guess. I don't really see why they can't bolt or glue some flippers onto her back legs, they're cut off pretty bad, but big enough to see from above
bbigsApr 10, 2009
Let's worry about prosthetics for our injured soldiers first.
hamatokamekoMay 22, 2009
Yeah, because the marine biologists that built this surely would have been building human prosthetics in their free time.