HEROIC SCIENTIST PERFORMS C- SECTION ON DEAD TURTLE TO SAVE EGGS : BABIES HATCH AFTER TWO MONTHS

  • 04/08/2021

A scientist became the guardian angel for hatchlings as he performed a C-section on their dead mother turtle to save their lives. The story unfolded a few months back when Gut Microbiome scientist Eric C Martens encountered a turtle that was killed in his neighbourhood by a reckless driver. The scientist understood that the now deceased mama turtle was looking for a place to lay her eggs, Martens brought its body to his home and performed a C-section surgery on the turtle.He was able to take out seven eggs from the mother turtle that the scientist then placed in a substrate for incubation. Two months later, the eggs started hatching on 2 August as Martens shared the development on Twitter. At the time of Martens' tweet, two eggs had hatched while three more were on their way to enter the world. To give other Twitter users a perspective about the size of the newborn turtles, Martens placed a US quarter next to one of the baby turtles. It can be seen that the newborn animal is barely the size of the coin. He hopes that the turtles will go back to the pond where their mother lived.

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