Rare sea turtle washes up dead with ‘whole ecosystem traveling with it,’ photos show

75-pound sea turtle washes ashore at Manzanita carrying ‘whole ecosystem’

By Joanna Wilson Click here for updates on this story     SEASIDE, Oregon (KPTV) — A 75-pound dead sea turtle washed ashore on Saturday at the south end of Manzanita beach, according to the Seaside Aquarium on Facebook. The aquarium said they retrieved the carcass and identified it as a loggerhead sea turtle. “This ocean-going turtle had a whole ecosystem traveling with it,” they said. When they cleaned the shell to identify the turtle, they fo…

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Rare sea turtle washes up dead with 'whole ecosystem' on its shell

Aquarium experts in Oregon discovered that the deceased five-stone reptile was transporting live goose barnacles, skeleton shrimp and sea slugs with it across the ocean

Rare sea turtle washes up dead with ‘whole ecosystem traveling with it,’ photos show

The loggerhead sea turtle “had been dead for quite some time” before washing up on the Oregon beach, officials said.

Rare sea turtle washes up dead with ‘whole ecosystem traveling with it,’ photos show

The loggerhead sea turtle “had been dead for quite some time” before washing up on the Oregon beach, officials said.

Rare sea turtle washes up dead with ‘whole ecosystem traveling with it,’ photos show

The loggerhead sea turtle “had been dead for quite some time” before washing up on the Oregon beach, officials said.