Year of Wildlife - Week 24: SEA TURTLE 🐢

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ALL 🐢 FACTS:
1. These ancient creatures have been on Earth for more than 100 million years — even surviving the dinosaurs when they became extinct 65 million years ago.

2. All 7 species of sea turtles are considered to be threatened or endangered at the hand of humans.

3. They live in almost every ocean basin throughout the world, nesting on tropical & subtropical beaches.

4. Most sea turtles spend their entire life at sea, only returning to nesting beaches to lay eggs.

5. The Green Seat Turtle has the most numerous & widely dispersed nesting sites of the 7.

6. About 1,000 hatchlings survive to be an adult.

7. Unlike other turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their flippers & heads into their shells.

8. Their streamlined shells & large paddle-shaped flippers make them very agile & graceful swimmers. In the water, their rear flippers are used as rudders, for steering.

9. Sea turtles breathe air, but they have the ability to remain submerged for hours at a time allowing them to sleep underwater.

10. The list of threats sea turtles face: Habitat loss, consumption of their eggs, shells & meat, drowning from being caught in fishing gear, coastal development & plastic pollution.