Interesting facts about sea turtles
-Most sea turtles are nomads and travel about 1,300 miles a day!
-The Hawksbill Sea Turtle is probably the one you see most often. They have this name because of their hawk-shaped bill.
-HawksbillSea Turtle is the most endangered sea turtle.
-A sea turtle's shell is as hard and tough as a rock. So it can never crack.
-On a sea turtle's shell there are some strange looking markings. A lost culture believed they could tell when the end of the world will be by reading the marks.
-A Leatherback Sea Turtle can dive more than 300 meters!! Sea turtles can stay submerged underwater for as long as 5 hours!!
-The Leatherback's staple food is the jelly-fish. They feed on a variety of jelly-fish, crabs, sea-lice and mollusks.
-Green and black sea turtles have finely serrated jaws adapted for a vegetarian diet of sea grasses and algae. In adulthood, they are the only herbivorous sea turtles, but an aquarium environment all sea turtle species can be maintained on a carnivorous diet.
-Sea turtles are strong swimmers. The cruising speed for green sea turtles is about 1.5 to 2.3 kph (0.9-1.4 mph). Leatherbacks have been recorded at speeds of 1.5 to 9.3 kph (0.9-5.8 mph).
-Most sea turtles are nomads and travel about 1,300 miles a day!
-The Hawksbill Sea Turtle is probably the one you see most often. They have this name because of their hawk-shaped bill.
-HawksbillSea Turtle is the most endangered sea turtle.
-A sea turtle's shell is as hard and tough as a rock. So it can never crack.
-On a sea turtle's shell there are some strange looking markings. A lost culture believed they could tell when the end of the world will be by reading the marks.
-A Leatherback Sea Turtle can dive more than 300 meters!! Sea turtles can stay submerged underwater for as long as 5 hours!!
-The Leatherback's staple food is the jelly-fish. They feed on a variety of jelly-fish, crabs, sea-lice and mollusks.
-Green and black sea turtles have finely serrated jaws adapted for a vegetarian diet of sea grasses and algae. In adulthood, they are the only herbivorous sea turtles, but an aquarium environment all sea turtle species can be maintained on a carnivorous diet.
-Sea turtles are strong swimmers. The cruising speed for green sea turtles is about 1.5 to 2.3 kph (0.9-1.4 mph). Leatherbacks have been recorded at speeds of 1.5 to 9.3 kph (0.9-5.8 mph).