Sea Turtles

Do you know which animal is a reptile and has a shell on it’s back? If you answered sea turtle then your right! Did you know that sea turtles can live for a century There are seven known sea turtle species from around the world, and the biggest specie is the Leather-back. The life cycle of a sea turtle has three main parts, eggs, babies and adulthood. First is the egg stage.

The female sea turtle digs a hole at a beach or in lower dunes. Then it lays about 110 eggs and covers then with left over sands. It may take 6 weeks for the baby turtles to hatch. After 6 weeks not all sea turtles hatch but 90 of them may survive. They squirm out of the sand and race to the waters.

While they are trying to race to the waters they can be stopped by many predators like seagulls, crabs and raccoons. 50% might make it to the waters but then they find a new group of predators in the sea like fish and sharks. Usually they would swim under a bunch of seaweed then they grow and grow until they’re adults.

Now that they are adults they have new predators like big sharks and big whales. After a few years the sea turtles will be able to mate and start the whole cycle again.