Source: Kate Elizabeth Queram, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 12/4/13

When sea turtle volunteers in North Carolina discover a freshly laid clutch of eggs, they do something seemingly counterintuitive to their conservation mission: Pluck an egg from the nest and crack it open. The contents are discarded, and the shell is quickly slipped into a tube of alcohol to preserve what they're really after - mama turtle juice.

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