Turkish animal rescuers found an almost lifeless turtle at sea, after a boat propeller shaved off a huge part of its snout. It escaped the clutches of death thanks to those kind folks, but a turtle that has to be hand-fed can never survive back in the wild. That's why the organization contacted 3D printing service provider BTech Innovation, which took the turtle's CT scans to create a beak that would fit it perfectly.
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The company recreated the reptile's upper and lower jaws through
software, and it printed out the resulting design using medical-grade
titanium. That beak has been surgically attached recently so the turtles still in recovery, but it's doing fine, as you can see in
the video below. Once it's done recovering, the rescuers plan to
release back to the ocean to live a normal turtley life.
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