A surprising discovery has come into light wherein volunteers surveying turtle nests in Australia have spotted a baby green sea turtle that wasn't actually green.

Coolum and North Shore Coast Care volunteers were counting the empty turtle shells on Castaways Beach for making an estimation of how many green sea turtles, also called Pacific sea turtles, had hatched, making it to the ocean.

The workers were hopeful that the nest will hatch on Friday, but on their arrival, they discovered a tiny albino hatchling on its back.

While speaking to ABC News Australia, volunteer group president Linda Warneminde said that none of them have ever faced or seen anything like that earlier, due to which, all of them were a bit taken aback.

Warneminde said that the hatchling looked normal, except having a white shell and tiny white flippers. There was a hue of slight pink under its flippers. She told the BBC that he wasn’t sick, was only white. Albino turtles are very rare.

Dr. Col Limpus, chief scientist of the Queensland's Government's Threatened Species Unit, told ABC News that the occurrence of albino hatchlings takes place at a rate of ‘one in many hundreds of thousands of eggs’. In spite of the initial triumph, the albino hatchling has a difficult life ahead.

According to Werneminde, generally, green sea turtles have a survival to maturity rate of nearly one in 1,000 hatchlings. They have to deal with a number of hurdles, ranging from predators to plastic debris to fishing humans. Albino green turtles also have a lower survival rate.

Dr. Limpus told ABC, “Normally they don't survive coming out of the nest and when they do they're abnormal and not well suited to the environment, which means the chance of survival is very slim”.