190 Sea Turtles Found Frozen To Death Along Cape Cod

Ben Thyng does an exam of a newly arrived living Kemp’s ridley turtle to the ICU at the Audubon Society’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet, Mass., as cold stunned turtles are brought in off area beaches after several days of below freezing weather. Mass Audubon Director Bob Prescott believes a warming trend in the Gulf of Maine has allowed the turtles to delay migration south. Steve Heaslip The Cape Cod Times

Wow–more than 300 cold-stunned sea turtles so far this fall and today– a nearly 300 pound loggerhead was rescued from…

Posted by Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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