The Seattle Aquarium has been helping save a sea turtle this week after it was found stranded on Shi Shi Beach in Washington.
Dr. Caitlin Hadfield, the senior veterinarian of the aquarium, told Seattle’s Morning News that the turtle — named Shi Shi for the beach where she was found — had a body temperature of just 48 degrees when she should have been around 75 degrees.
“This turtle ended up much further north than it should have been, in water that is much too cold for it, and overtime, it just got colder and colder and everything shot of shut down. It wasn’t able to swim or get
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