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 ...

An injured sea turtle found in the cooling canal of a New Jersey power plant in 2013 is now growing and thriving at a California aquarium thanks to 3D printing.

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 ...

Sea turtle with ‘bubble butt syndrome’ gets a 3D-printed custom harness Charlotte, the 138-pound green sea turtle, was struck by a boat about 18 years ago. Laura Baisas Dec 17, 2024 10:00 AM EST ...

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 ...

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 ...