How Do World's Smallest Sea Turtles Become Stranded in Cape Cod? (IMAGE)

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How Do World's Smallest Sea Turtles Become Stranded in Cape Cod?

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High school students from Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, Massachusetts releasing a drifter into Cape Cod Bay in 2016. Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary worked with the students to study surface currents relative to sea turtle strandings in the fall.

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Olivia Bourque

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