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 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.

Related: Are sea turtle conservation efforts working? The researchers used what they learned from the three-dimensional scans to build a 3D-printed brace for the loggerhead’s shell out of white ...

Charlotte, a green sea turtle at Connecticut's Mystic Aquarium, wears a custom 3D-printed prosthetic harness on his backside. Charlotte, who was named before they realized he was a boy, was hit by ...

The sea turtle, who does not have an official name, has a piece from her shell missing, and is paralyzed in her rear flippers. So, the scientists at the aquarium teamed up with UC San Diego's ...

Turtle’s 3D-printed harness could help ‘bubble butt syndrome’ ABC News’ Danny New reports on Charlotte, a green sea turtle receiving help at Mystic Aquarium to swim normally after a ...

Air bubbles can form in the deformed shell, throwing off their natural buoyancy and making swimming difficult. — Read the rest The post 3D-printed harness fixes sea turtle's "bubble butt ...