\n Linz Goater, from Aldwick, near Bognor, was running along the beach when he saw the animal’s body directly down from The Waverley towards the end of the beach huts.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt seemed to have been dead a while because it had no eyes,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTurtles have no business round here \u2013 it probably washed off course from the South Atlantic.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Linz and others on social media have speculated that it may have been the body of a hawksbill \u2013 a species of turtle which is critically endangered and found\u00a0mainly throughout the world’s tropical oceans,\u00a0predominantly in coral reefs.\n<\/p>\n
\n Linz, who has a masters degree in taxonomy from the National History Museum, sent photographs of his discovery to the strandings department at the museum with a pin of its location.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere might be someone in the scientific community who might be interested in finding its cause of death and using this to build up a picture,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI scuba dive and I have never seen a turtle off the UK coast before.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s slightly novel \u2013 you never know what you\u2019ll find on the beach. Seeing the marine life is one of the reasons why we moved here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linz Goater, from Aldwick, near Bognor, was running along the beach when he saw the animal’s body directly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-388446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}