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Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World's Smallest Sea Turtle
Lauren Owens Lambert, bioGraphic It’s a hot and windy May day on the Texas Coast, and Donna Shaver’s long ponytail, the color of sand, drips from underneath her ranger hat. She crouches down next to what looks like an imprint of angel wings in the sand. “ …