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TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. – A cold-stunned turtle<\/a> is warming up and recovering at Clearwater<\/a> Marine Aquarium after being rescued on Treasure Island.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Treasure Island Police Department\u2019s Community Service Crew said that while they were on routine patrol on Monday morning, they spotted a half-buried lump in the sand that surprised them when it blinked.<\/p>\n That lump in the sand turned out to be a cold-stunned sea turtle.<\/p>\n The crew said the turtle appeared to have washed up during high tide and became too weak to move after it was hit by a sudden chill.<\/p>\n READ: State’s rare freeze gives residents and visitors green light to collect stunned invasive iguanas<\/a><\/p>\n According to TIPD, the turtle tried to bury itself in the land to stay warm, but managed to poke its head out to let itself be known.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Treasure Island Police Department <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The crew called experts at Clearwater Marine Aquarium, took photos, and kept watch over the turtle until the rescue team arrived with blankets and a large recovery tote.<\/p>\n The rescuers scooped up the turtle, wrapped it in a cozy blanket and took it away for warm-water rehab.<\/p>\n CMA thanked the TIPD crew and said their actions helped save the turtle\u2019s life.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n In a social media post, TIPD wrote, “Another day, another way our team protects Treasure Island\u2014whether it’s people, property… or precious sea creatures!”<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Treasure Island Police Department.<\/p>\n Pinellas County<\/a>Sea Turtles<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Treasure Island Police Department TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. – A cold-stunned turtle is warming up and recovering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,554,23845,202,204,203,199,201,200,628,14992],"class_list":{"0":"post-140795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sea-turtles","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wild-nature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/turtle-resized-2.jpg\")
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