Townsville’s Reef HQ turtle hospital may be hosting Australia’s first recorded hybrid sea turtle.

The animal, nicknamed Summer, appears to be a cross between a hawksbill turtle and a green sea turtle.

The Reef HQ’s director, Fred Nucifora, said hybrids were extremely rare and there had not been a recorded instance of a hybrid anywhere in the world since the 1980s.

Source: Suspected rare hybrid sea turtle recovering in Townsville turtle hospital – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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