Green Sea Turtle
Mar 05, 2014
Green sea turtle off Kiribati. Photo: Brian Zgliczynski
A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) swims out of the blue to investigate research divers at Millennium Atoll, Kiribati. Photographer Brian Zgliczynski is part of a Scripps Institution of Oceanography research team studying diseases afflicting coralline algae in the Line Islands.
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