Thanks to WPI undergrads, this sea turtle has a "biomimetic" flipper From: Boston Globe - 11/03/2016 By: Colin Nickerson It's been a turbulent decade-and-a-half since Lola's tangles with fishing gear and predatory fish. The 2002 and 2003 mishaps in the Gulf of Mexico ruined her right flipper, injured her intestines and spine, and cost her the ability to survive in the wild. Now Lola's fortunes are dramatically on the upstroke thanks to a trio of never-say-never engineering undergraduates at Worcester Polytechnic Institute who used an emergent technology—3D printing—to fashion a first-of-its-kind prosthetic flipper for Lola. Read the entire article at: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/03/thanks-wpi-undergrads-this-sea-turtle-has-biomimetic-flipper/ZK0ru1rzI6Ab3oIneUeH2O/story.html