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Sampling the Oil

Biologists use a sterile gauze pad to carefully remove spots of oil from the body of a young green sea turtle. This gauze was to be tested to determine if the oil was from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

 

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Uploaded on August 19, 2010
Taken on August 3, 2010