AquaMarine Life

Tourists brought a 5” green sea turtle that was missing three of its flippers to a hospital for endangered animals when they found it lying on the ground. After being given injections of antibiotics and a diet of squid the turtle is recovering well. The doctors say that they don’t know how the turtle was able to swim with only one flipper.

A barnacle is a type of crustacean that is related to lobsters and crabs. There are over 1,220 species of barnacles that have been discovered and classified. Charles Darwin was the first person to officially study and classify them. In 1851 and 1854 he published a series of monographs.