You might have heard reports from Florida last week about frozen iguanas falling from trees after being stunned by the chilly temperatures.
But did you know a similar phenomenon happens to sea turtles — right in Cape Cod Bay?
Each winter, hundreds of turtles become trapped in the bay when the temperature drops and they become "cold-stunned" by hypothermia. When they wash up on the Cape's beaches, volunteers with the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary collect them and bring them to a state-of-the-art sea turtle hospital run by the New England Aquarium in Quincy, where they are nursed back to health by a team of specialists.
Two of those specialists joined Boston Public Radio's Friday News Quiz: Katie Pugliares, a senior biologist and necropsy specialist at the New England Aquarium, and Kate Sampson, the sea turtle stranding and disentanglement coordinator at NOAA fisheries and a former aquarium rescue and rehab biologist.
Click the audio player above to hear more about their work — and to hear them face off on the Friday News Quiz.
