Sea turtles use their flippers to swim around as they peruse the marine environment. On the other hand, new research published in the journal PeerJ this week by researchers from the Monterey Bay ...

Sea turtle flippers might appear to be useful for swimming and… not much else. But it turns out at least some turtles them have figured out a way to use these appendages like an awkward pair of arms.

Goody the sea turtle lost her left flipper years ago after she got stuck in a fishing net. She was left immobile — until a team of researchers in Thailand fitted her with the country's first ...