Photos: Vets successfully remove over one thousand coins from a turtle's stomach

A team of veterinary surgeons on Monday, March 6th, successfully removed nearly a thousand coins from a turtle's stomach in Thailand, the world's first such surgery. Five veterinarians at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University conducted a six-hour surgery on Omsin, Thai for "piggy bank," to remove a total of 915 coins weighing five kilograms from the 59-kilogram female turtle. "The coins

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