Wildlife Biologist Russ Lowers examines alligator eggs to check for viability using candling inside a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Ecological Program June 24, 2015 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The reptiles were hatched in the lab and will be returned to their nesting site for introduction back into the wild.

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Wildlife Biologist Russ Lowers examines alligator eggs to check for viability using candling inside a laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Ecological Program June 24, 2015 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The reptiles were hatched in the lab and will be returned to their nesting site for introduction back into the wild.

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