BOSTON — New England Aquarium staff on Thursday returned three rehabilitated sea turtles to the Atlantic Ocean as this year's release season winds down.

Two Kemp’s ridley and one green sea turtle crawled into Nantucket Sound from West Dennis Beach on Thursday morning as bystanders cheered them on. The turtles spent about eight months receiving care at the aquarium’s sea turtle hospital in Quincy after becoming “cold-stunned” and stranding on the shores of Cape Cod last year.

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