Turtle swept 4,000 miles to Wales released in US
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One of the world's rarest turtles who was washed up in north Wales 4,000 miles (about 6,430km) away from her home has been safely returned to sea.
Tally was found stranded and near death on Talacre beach, Flintshire, in 2021.
She is a Kemp's ridley turtle, a species mainly found in the Gulf of Mexico and off eastern North America.
She was nursed back to full health by Anglesey Sea Zoo and transported back to Texas.
She was transported by plane to Houston Zoo in the US, where veterinarians checked she was healthy enough to be released into the wild.
On Tuesday afternoon Tally was released into the Gulf of Mexico on Stewart Beach in Galveston.
Posting on Facebook, Gulf Centre for Sea Turtle Research said they tagged the turtle with a satellite tag to track her movements.