(AP) Alon Bernstein - A badly injured green sea turtle, whose two left flippers had to be amputated, has a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet. The sea turtle, named "Hofesh," the Hebrew word for "freedom," will never be able to return to the wild, said Yaniv Levy, director of Israel's Sea Turtle Rescue Center. But he shares a tank with a blind female turtle named Tsurit, and researchers are optimistic the pair will mate. "Their offspring will be released the minute they hatch and go immediately into the sea and live normally in the wild," Levy said.
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