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Green sea turtle Leatherback olive ridly Loggerhead sea turtle Flatback sea turtle hawksbill sea turtle Black sea turtle Kemps ridly sea turtle LEATHER BACK The leatherbackis the biggest and heviest sea turtle it can be 8ft and 650-1300lbs. The leatherback eats jellyfish,tunicates,and other soft bodyed animals. Its life span is unknown.It can stay under water for 85minuts.In Pacific Mexico, the average is 3 nests per female with a clutch size of 50. However, in other areas, from 100 to 180 eggs per clutch are recorded. The incubation period will vary from50 to 55 days.Somewhat surprisingly, the diet of this giant turtle is almost exclusively jellyfish. Many die each year when they become impacted from swallowing discarded plastic bags. HAWKSBILL They can get to get to 45inchs and 150lbs. They eat,mollusks,marine alge,crustaeans,sea urchens,fish,and jellyfish. they are very indangered because of human impact. They avoid deep waters. They are called hawksbill because it has a point at the tip like a hawk.Hawksbills are denizens of coral reefs and rocky areas, shallow costal areas and lagoons. They are found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. Specimens sometimes wash ashore dead or entangled in fishing nets, lines, or in onion bags, along the Texas Coast. A sizeable nesting population exists on coasts of Campeche and Yucatan, Mexico. GREEN TURTLE It gets its name by the color of its shell. They can get to 5ft and 700lbs. They are an endangered spicies. They eat krabs,sponges,jellyfish,grasses,and aldge.Adult green sea turtles grow to a length of four feet (1.3 meters) and range from 250 to 450 pounds (113-204 kilograms). Conant (1991) lists a record size of over 650 pounds (295 + kilograms). The adult's shell ranges from a rusty reddish brown to light brown with darker mottling. The most distinctive identifying character of the green turtle are the two large oblong preocular scales between their eyes. The green turtle is named for the color of its fat, not for its overall coloration. FLATBACK The flatback is called that because it has flatback. They like coral reefs and grass' in shallow water. They eat sea cucumbers and crusteans. They can be 198lbs and 39inchs long.According to Limpus et al (1988), the flatback nests up to 4 times per season at 13 to 18 day intervals. It lays an average of 50 eggs at a time, but these are comparatively quite large. As large, in fact, as those of the giant leatherback turtle. Because of the large size of the hatchlings, fewer are taken by small predators such as crabs or gulls. October to February is the nesting season in Queensland Northern Territory, but it may nest year-around in Northwestern Australia. BLACK This turtle is found primarily in coastal waters, bays and estuaries in tropical and subtropical latitudes. This turtle feeds primarily on marine algae.The black turtle is known to hibernate in the Northern Gulf of California.Adult black turtles weigh as much as 220 pounds (100 kilograms) and measure up to 39 inches. LOGGERHEAD This animal is named for its proportionally large head and powerful jaws. The upper shell is brown and reddish-brown. The body skin ranges from brown to yellow.The lower shell ranges from creamy to yellow. The scales on the top of the head are often a deep rusty brown color.Adults of this species weigh from 170-500 pounds (77-227 kilograms) and are nearly four feet (1.2 meters) in total length.Sexual maturity is reached somewhere between 15 to 20 years of age. Like most species of sea turtles, adult males differ in appearance from females in having a much larger and stronger tail.Through out much of its U.S. nesting habitat, raccoons are a major egg predator. Lights on coastal highways and housing developments disorient the nocturnal emerging hatchlings of this species, often causing them to move away from the water and be killed by automobiles. Loggerhead hides are highly valued for their rich color and are widely used to make leather products such as boots, wallets, and purses. KEMPSRIDLY The Kemp's ridley is the smallest of the eight species of sea turtles. Adults range from 75-100 pounds (34-45 kilograms). In 1880 a Florida fisherman and naturalist named Richard M. Kemp found the first documented specimen of this turtle. To honor his finding the species name became Lepidochelys kempii. The average clutch size is 100 eggs. This species lays the smallest eggs of the sea turtles. The eggs of all sea turtles are perfectly round in shape and have a leathery shell. The Kemp’s eggs are about the size of a ping pong ball. Nesting females will on average lay 2-3 clutches per season.The preferred habitat for the Kemp’s is shallow coastal areas, bays and lagoons. While in these areas they often search out their favorite food, crabs. One consequence of this habitat choice is that entanglement with fishing nets, hooks and other marine debris is quite common. OLIVERIDLY This is an omnivorous turtle which feeds on crustaceans, mollusks and tunicates. An average clutch size is over 110 eggs which require a 52 to 58 day incubation period.The olive ridley inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal bays and estuaries. It is very oceanic in the Eastern Pacific and probably elsewhere too. These animals are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and along the Atlantic coast of West Africa and the Atlantic coast of South America. In the Eastern Pacific it occurs from Southern California, USA to Northern Chile. Large nesting aggregations called "arribadas" still occur in Pacific Costa Rica, primarily at Nancite and Ostionales and Pacific Mexico at La Escobilla, Oaxaca. The weight of turtles The leatherback is the biggest and heaviest sea turtle it ranges from 650-1300lbs. The olive ridly is useally less than 100lbs.The loggerhead can get up to 350lbs the green turtle is almost as heavy but not quiet it can get to 320lbs. The hawabisk is a little bigger than the olive ridly it gets between 100-150lbs.

Questions: Q: why do only females come to shore A: Beacuse they have to lay eggs

Mating The male grabs the females shell. They and they sleep like that and the babbies float to the surface sleeping. Then when the male unatachs to the female the females shell might be bleeding. The females mate with more than one male. The average size of a cluch of eggs is between 80-120 eggs.Sea turtles mature at around age 30. The males then spend their whole lives at sea, while females mate with the males at sea and then go to the beach to dig a hole and lay their eggs. Female sea turtles may lay eggs several times during a single season.

How they act There are alot of sea turtles big and small heavy and light. But each kind of sea turtle look and acts different.They can have a softorhard shell. They can be 8ft or 1inch. They can be grown up or a baby.Sea turtles act vary strange and hevey for there size. TURTLE FACTS


 * They mate more than once
 * They dont have teeth
 * The leather back sea turtle is the biggest sea turtle
 * The kemps ridly sea turtle is the smallest sea turtle
 * Leather backs can coake on plastic bags mistakeing them to be a jellyfish
 * The sea turtle die from pollution
 * Sea turtles have no visable ears
 * Sea turtles have a two month encubation
 * Sea turtles mature at age 30
 * They live in almost every ocean
 * They nest in tropical and subtropical areas

THREAT TO THEIR SURVIVAL!!! Each year 1000-10000sea turtles will make it to adulthood. In nature sea turtles face a lot of life and death obsticles like predators such as raccoons,krabs,and ants. Leatherback get hunted for there shell. People are seling sea turtle eggs at markets.They have to deal with sharksMost of the debris is recognizable: plastic bags, balloons, bottles, degraded buoys, plastic packaging, and food wrappers. Some plastics aren't so easy to see, so small, in fact, that it is invisible to the naked eye. If sea turtles ingest these particles, they can become sick or even starve.

SALTGLAND Sea turtles possess a salt excretory gland at the corner of the eye, in the nostrils, or in the tongue, depending on the species; chelonian salt glands are found in the corner of the eyes in leatherback turtles. Due to the iso-osmotic makeup of jellyfish and the other gelatinous prey upon which sea turtles subsist, sea turtle diets are high in salt; chelonian salt gland excretions are almost entirely composed of sodium chloride 1500-1800.

Baby Sea Turtles Life Cycle
Baby sea turtles are the result of millions of years of mating and nesting rituals.When ready to lay baby sea turtles eggs, the female will make her way to the beach where she was hatched and create a nest in which she can lay the eggs for the future baby sea turtles. She will use her hind flippers to dig a hole that is 40 to 50 centimeters deep. When the hole is to the female's satisfaction, the female will fill the nest with a clutch of eggs that will soon hatch into baby sea turtles. A female will deposit the eggs of 150 to 200 baby sea turtles, depending on the species of the female. The nest will then be refilled with the loose sand until it is not detectable by predators, and then the female makes her way back to the ocean where the baby sea turtles will make their way when they hatch.
 * [[image:http://www.thesea.org/images/baby-sea-turtles.jpg caption="Baby Sea Turtles on sand"]] ||
 * Baby Sea Turtles on sand ||

Baby Sea Turtles Reproduction
Not all of the eggs of the baby sea turtles are fertilized, so some will hatch and some will not. The incubation of baby sea turtles takes about eight weeks, though the incubation of the baby sea turtles varies slightly from species to species as well as on the temperature of the sand in which they have been left in. If baby sea turtles are nested in darker sand they will likely hatch sooner as the darker sands have higher temperatures.

====Baby Sea Turtles Journey ==== When the baby sea turtles hatch, the baby sea turtles will tear out of their shells with their snout and then instinct will lead to the baby sea turtles towards the sea. Unfortunately, a very small percentage of baby sea turtles will actually make it to the sea alive and those baby sea turtles that do make it are still at great risk. Only about .001% of the baby sea turtles that hatch will be successful in making it to the water alive as there are many predators that watch for the hatching of the baby sea turtles. There are often baby sea turtles hatching in large numbers, so the predators will literally stand around and wait to eat up baby sea turtles as they emerge from the sand.
 * [[image:http://www.thesea.org/images/baby-sea-turtles2.jpg caption="Baby Sea Turtles in water"]] ||
 * Baby Sea Turtles in water ||

Baby Sea Turtles Life Span
Baby sea turtles spend as long as the first five years of their life in beds of unattached seaweed, which gives baby sea turtles plenty of shelter as well as food. In fact, there are some species of baby sea turtles that spend most of their lives in these beds of seaweed that float in the middle of the ocean.

Baby Sea Turtles Diet
Baby sea turtles often feed on zooplankton and nekton before they begin to feed on sea grass. One thing that helps the baby sea turtles survive once they make their way out into the open waters is the hard shell of baby sea turtles and their instinctive ability to find beds of seaweed. SORCES [] []

Sad Tale of Three Dead Leatherback Sea Turtles
Leviathans of the sea and giants of the reptile family, leatherback sea turtles define the term superlative. Ranging in weight up to a ton and the size of a small Volkswagen, no one who has encountered one of these living relics in the wild comes away from the experience unchanged. They are simply magnificent beasts that peacefully ply the world’s oceans in search of slurpy jellyfish. The open mouth of a leatherback sea turtle (see below) is perfectly configured for this quest and is the last thing that a jellyfish senses before the lights go out.

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