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At least 219 sea turtles, many of them dead, have stranded on the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts in three days, reports the Cape Cod Times. It was thought that they were experiencing exceptionally low single-digit temperatures during Thanksgiving week.
"It was like they were frozen, the fins in all the strange positions as if they were swimming," said Robert Prescott, director of the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Most reptiles are young Kemp ridley turtles. Some of the live animals were sent to the New England Aquarium Animal Care Center in Quincy.
Outbreaks of endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
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Drew Broach covers Jefferson Parish politics and education, as well as other odds and ends NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. E-mail: [email protected]. Facebook: Drew Broach TP. Twitter: Drewbroach1. Google+: Drew Broach.
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