Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a front flipper, has been released from a Florida animal hospital back into the Atlantic Ocean.

"No dallying here! Dilly Dally is back home," the Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC), a sea turtle conservation institute, wrote in a Wednesday post on Facebook. "We are so happy to see Dilly back in the ocean safe and sound!"

The post included a video of Dilly Dally swimming in a pool, sans her right front flipper, shortly before veterinary staff transported her to the ocean's shore. Waiting for her at the beach, dozens of supporters watched as the nearly 160-pound reptile was gently placed on the sand, where she slowly pushed herself back into the Atlantic waters.

Dilly Dally, an adolescent log

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