(WHDH) — Members of Boston’s New England Aquarium traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, on Monday to release 14 sea turtles that were found stranded on Cape Cod back into the ocean.
In a video shared on the aquarium’s YouTube page, biologists can be seen carrying the turtles to the sand at Little Talbot Island State Park and releasing them back into the Atlantic.
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The turtles were emaciated and suffering from pneumonia when they were found stranded on a Cape Cod beach between November and December, the aquarium said. They were then rehabbed at a nearby sea turtle hospital.
In total, the aquarium saved 10 loggerhead and four Kemp’s ridley sea turtles.
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