Researchers have made a fascinating and honestly pretty cute finding about sea turtles. Some are using their flippers not just for swimming, but also to help forage for food or capture prey. In effect, they are using them like big awkward arms.
Lead study author Jessica Fujii, a researcher with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a Wednesday press release, “Sea turtles’ limbs have evolved mostly for locomotion, not for manipulating prey.