Showing posts with label national marine aquarium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national marine aquarium. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Turtle washed up on Cornish beach has a scan after epilepsy fears

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Turtle-washed-Cornish-beach-scan-epilepsy-fears/story-12844454-detail/story.html

An epileptic turtle who keeps having fits underwater has been taken for an MRI scan to try to discover if a brain tumour is behind her health problems.

Snorkel, a loggerhead turtle, washed up on a Cornish beach in 1990 and has been living at the National Marine Aquarium (NMA) in Plymouth for more than ten years.

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