SEA TURTLES

By Cornell Smyre

FACTS ABOUT SEA TURTLES

Sea turtles are one of the Earth’s most ancient creatures. The seven species that can be found today have been around for 110 million years since the time of the dinosaurs the sea turtle’s shell or carapace is streamlined for swimming through the water.

FAST FACTS

Kemp’s Ridley is the smallest sea turtles at 30 inches long (.762m). The largest sea Turtle is the leatherback an adult can reach over six and a half feet long (over 1.8m). Adult female and male sea turtles are the same size.

Weight Kemp’s Ridley weights between 80 100lbs (36 45kg) leatherback can weigh over 2,000 pounds (over 907 kg).

BEHAVIOR

Sea Turtles spend most of their lives in the water where not much information can be gathered on their behavior most of what is known about sea .Turtles behavior is obtained by observing hatchlings and females that leave. The water to lay eggs. Sea Turtles like salmon will return to the same nesting grounds at which they were born. When Females come to the shore they dig out and nest in the ground with their back flippers.