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Injured Turtle Gets a Lift with His Own Custom Lego Wheelchair

The wild turtle was found in a local park with a broken shell by a Maryland Zoo employee Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...
WUSA

Turtle who wore Lego wheelchair after multiple shell fractures released back into the wild

BALTIMORE — We know turtles have a reputation for being a tad slow-moving, but would that change if one has a custom Lego wheelchair attached to it? The zoo fastened a custom Lego wheelchair on an ...
CNET

Injured turtle rolls through recovery with a Lego wheelchair

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A wild ...
WBAL-TV

Famous LEGO turtle returns to native habitat in Baltimore

Famous LEGO wild Eastern box turtle is back in its native habitat in Baltimore.According to Maryland Zoo officials, the turtle has been out of the LEGO wheelchair for a year and he's been able to move ...
The Washington Post

A turtle that used a Lego wheelchair to heal is released in Maryland

A turtle that had been injured and had a customized wheelchair built for it from Legos has been released into the wild. Dubbed “Lego turtle,” the male Eastern box turtle had been in the care of the ...