Loggerhead turtle found on beach
PA Dunedin An unusal find for Otago Museum zoologists was a loggerhead turtle at Kaka Beach, south-east Otago, last month. Stranded loggerhead turtles have been reported in New Zealand from as early as 1885, but this is the first one to be found in the South Island, according to the Otago Museum’s director, Dr R. R. Forster. They are widely distributed through the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans and the Mediterranean, and are
numbers on the Australian mainland. Dr Forster said the turtle washed up was dead when found but did not have its shell. The museum would like to find the shell to complete the turtle skeleton for the comparative skeletal collection, he said. Another find, on Turks Beach, was a stranded specimen of a 5m Grey’s beaked whale which is also to become a part of the museum’s skeletal collection.
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