Researchers Remove Plastic Straw From Sea Turtle's Nose

Christine and a group of fellow marine biologists were on an in-water research trip in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, when they found a male olive ridley sea turtle with something lodged in his nose. What they first thought was a worm turned out to be a plastic straw, which took several painstaking minutes to remove. After doing so, the group disinfected the turtle’s air passageway with iodine and kept him for observation until the bleeding stopped. Credit: YouTube/COASTS