fuzzyblackyeti

fuzzyblackyeti t1_j1nwkan wrote

Because they took it from a quote.

>"They are absolutely beautiful, tiny turtles … about the size of a 20-cent piece with a beautiful distinct pattern on their back," Hunter Local Land Services' (HLLS) Rye Gollan said.

They wanted to have the order of the words as 'tiny beautiful' instead of 'beautiful tiny' so they "quoted" one part of their comment. If they would have said 'beautiful tiny' they would have quoted it like

>'Beautiful, tiny' endangered turtle hatchlings spotted in the wild for first time in four years

For whatever reason the author/editor/publication company didn't like how that was phrased and swapped it, but still wanted to quote them to give the title more merit.

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