A real live teenage mutant ninja turtle? Viral sensation returns to the sea.

Georgia News Earl Grey was rescued from a Cape Cod beach 6 months ago, and nursed to health at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Lydia McDonald, a hospital technician at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, releases Earl Grey, a rare loggerhead and Kemp's ridley cross-breed, back to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. It was near death in the frigid Cape Cod waters last November before being nursed back to health. (Courtesy of Georgia Sea Turtle Center)

A real live teenage mutant ninja turtle? Viral sensation returns to the sea.. Georgia News Earl Grey was rescued from a Cape Cod beach 6 months ago, and nursed to health at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Lydia McDonald, a hospital technician at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, releases Earl Grey, a rare loggerhead and Kemp's ridley cross-breed, back to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday. It was near death in the frigid Cape Cod waters last November before being nursed back to health. (Courtesy of Georgia Sea Turtle Center) 1 hour ago As its flippers met sand and the ocean washed across its shell for the first time in six months, Earl Grey charged for home. The state’s latest viral wildlife sensation, with more than 30 million views on Facebook and Instagram, had had enough of its celebrity. The 17-pound sea turtle had convalesc...