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Tue 08 Aug 2009Eating plastic bag may have killed turtle
MARINE SCIENTISTS believe that a leatherback turtle which was washed up last week on the northern shore of Galway Bay may have died from ingesting a plastic bag which it mistook for a jellyfish.
The turtle had been decapitated when found west of the Blackrock diving boards at Salthill, possibly as a result of a collision with rocks while floating into shore.
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