The Sea is a large body of salt water with so many animals no one knows how many there are.
Sea Turtles Sea Turtles or marine turtles are reptiles of the super family chelonioidea. There are seven existing species of sea turtles .The Flat back, Green, Hawks bill, Leather back, Kemp’s Ridley, and Olive Ridley. Six of them are threatened with extinction.
Sea turtles can be categorized as hard-shelled cheloniid. This is a family of typically large marine turtles that are known by their common traits such as, having a flat streamlined wide and rounded shell and almost paddle-like flippers for their forelimbes. sea turtles have stronger front limbs than back limbs.
One Of The Oldest Surviving Reptile
The earliest known turtles are from the middle jurassic. This makes turtles one of the oldest surviving reptile groups
Sea Turtle gender depends on sand temperature while the egg is incubating. like crocodiles and snakes
Sea Turtle Facts
Sea Turtles are ancient creatures that have existed for over 100 million years, coexisting with dinosaurs and surviving the mass extinction event.
The biggest sea Turtle ever to live was Archelon
ischyros, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. The largest specimen measured up to15 feet. Significantly larger than the largest living sea turtle, the leatherback sea turtle which can reach 9.5 feet
What is the green sea turtle named for?
The green Sea turtle is named for the green fat beneath their shell
What are leatherback sea turtles named for?
Leatherback sea turtles are named for their distinctive, soft, leather-like shell, which is unique among turtles and composed of tough, cartilage-type tissue rather than a hard, bony carapace.
Sea Turtles Cry
Sea turtles don’t cry out of sadness or emotion like we do instead the appearance of tears is a physiological process for managing salt levels in their bodies.
Leatherback Sea Turtles
The Leatherback sea Turtle is the largest of all living turtles
The heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to 8 feet
It is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family dermochelyidae. It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell instead, its carapace is covered by oily flesh and flexible leather-like skin,
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
The appearance of the Hawksbill is similar to that of other marine turtles. In general, it has a flattened body shape, a protective carapace and flipper like limbs, adapted for swimming in the open ocean. It is easily distinguished from other sea turtles by its sharp, curving beak and the saw-like appearance of its shell margins. Hawksbill shells slightly change colors, depending on water temperature. While this turtle lives part of its life in the open ocean, it spends more time in shallow lagoons and coral reefs.
Green Sea Turtle
The Green sea Turtles Its range extends throughout tropical and subtropical seas around the world, with two distinct populations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, It is also found in the Indian Ocean. The common name refers to the usually green found beneath its carapace, due to its diet strictly being seagrass