Rare albino turtle hatchling spotted in Australia faces battle to survive

Monitors on Queensland's Lady Elliot Island have only seen a handful of albino hatchlings but never an adult

Jessica Buckman is used to finding stragglers when she heads out to check recently hatched green turtle nests on Queensland's Lady Elliot Island.

But the tiny pink creature she found in the neck of one nest on Monday was far from a usual find - a rare albino hatchling that was having a little trouble digging itself out.