Turtles

Turtles

November 18, 2004

Endangered Green Sea Turtle Rescued

Endangered Green Sea Turtle Rescued

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

A 17-pound live green sea turtle found on Chappaquiddick more than a
week ago is recovering at the New England Aquarium. The turtle,
nicknamed Quiddick by a Vineyard veterinarian who first treated it, is
the first endangered green turtle recovered live from the Vineyard.

August 18, 1989

Is She Island’s Oldest? Box Turtle Isn’t Telling

The Island’s oldest resident may well live in the woods of West Tisbury. Her name is Boxer.
 
Two nine-year-old girls have seen her. Lucy Hodgson and Amelia Krales saw the ancient woodland traveler at the start of the summer. The old lady was making her way down a narrow path in dense woods under dappled sunlight.
 
She is a very old box turtle.
 
Tom Hodgson, Lucy’s father, has read in science books that a box turtle can live for 130 years.
 

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