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Have you ever wondered if the temperature  effects the gender of a baby sea turtle? Well I hope you do  because this article is about the temperature effecting the gender of a sea turtle.Check this article out!

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When born, green sea turtles are only 5 cm (2 in) long. But they grow up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) in length and can weigh over 300 kg (700 lbs), making them the largest of the hardshell sea turtles.

The dorsal shell of the green turtle, or carapace, is wide, smooth, and brownish-olive in color. The underside of the shell, or plastron, is yellow. Green sea turtles are so named for the greenish hue of their skin. They have heads that cannot retract into their bodies, a trait commonly associated with turtles. Reaching speeds of up to 56 km/h (35 mph), their streamlined shell and paddle-like flippers aid in their ability to swim quickly and with grace.

Green sea turtles are able to hold their breath for hours at a time. Because they are cold-blooded, the temperature of the water affects their ability to hold their breath. In colder water they can hold their breath for longer.

With features well-adapted to sea life, their agile mobility underwater does not carry over to their travels on the beach. On land they move slowly, laboriously pulling themselves along with their flippers. But in general, green turtles only venture onto land to lay their eggs. Females lay eggs every 2-4 years once they are sexually mature.

To reach their nesting grounds, green turtles migrate long distances, traveling back to the beaches where they were born. After mating in the shallow waters near shore, female turtles climb onto the beach and lay their eggs in a pit. They lay 100-200 eggs at a time and leave them alone for 2 months before they hatch. Once the baby turtles hatch, they must crawl to the water and avoid a multitude of predators, including birds and crabs.

Green sea turtles make their home in tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide. There are two types of green turtles, the Atlantic green turtle and the Eastern Pacific green turtle. It is debated whether these are subspecies or completely separate species. Each of the populations has its own feeding and breeding grounds. Atlantic green turtles are found throughout the Atlantic Ocean, while Eastern Pacific green turtles are found in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Mediterranean and Black Seas. Over 80 countries in the world have green turtles nest on their beaches.

Green sea turtles feed on crabs, jellyfish, and other creatures as juveniles. As adults they become herbivores, primarily eating sea grasses and algae.

Conservation Status

According to the IUCN, green turtles are listed as endangered, and their numbers are decreasing. Green turtles are hunted and their eggs are collected by humans, a legal practice in some countries. Green turtles are also threatened by destruction of nesting areas and foraging areas in the sea. Sometimes green turtles are accidentally caught in fishing nets, further declining their population.

There are efforts to lessen the amount of turtles and eggs harvested in many countries. In addition, many countries are trying to protect the nesting and foraging grounds. They are protected under many treaties and laws.

What You Can Do to Help

Green sea turtles can use as many advocates as they can get. Make sure you do not purchase products made from this endangered species. Also, if you live an area that green turtles use for nesting, you can lead a community effort to protect the beaches they nest on.

Green Sea Turtle Distribution

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About the Author

P.A. Smith is a middle school Language Arts teacher. He is also a contributing editor of My House Rabbit.

Last updated on August 24, 2014.

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When born, green sea turtles are only 5 cm (2 in) long. But they grow up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) in length and can weigh over 300 kg (700 lbs), making them the largest of the hardshell sea turtles. The dorsal shell of the green turtle, or carapace, is wide, smooth, and brownish-olive in color.

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Did you  know that the first marine life was 220 million years ago? There are some pretty interesting facts. Read this article and find out more!!!

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Of the 7 sea turtle species, 6 (all but the flatback) exist in the United States, and all are endangered. Threats to sea turtles include coastal development (which leads to loss of nesting habitat or making previous nesting areas unsuitable), harvesting turtles for eggs or meat, bycatch in fishing gear, entanglement in or ingestion of marine debris, boat traffic, and climate change.

You can help by:

Supporting sea turtle research and conservation organizations and projects through volunteering or donating funds.

Supporting measures to protect nesting habitats.

Choosing seafood that is caught without impacting turtles (e.g., in areas where turtle excluder devices are used, or where bycatch is minimal).

Not purchasing sea turtle products, including meat, eggs, oil, or tortoiseshell.

Watching out for sea turtles if you are out on a boat in sea turtle habitat.

Reducing marine debris. This includes always disposing of your trash properly, using fewer disposable items and plastics, buying locally and purchasing items with less packaging.

Reducing your carbon footprint by using less energy.

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Of the 7 sea turtle species, 6 (all but the flatback) exist in the United States, and all are endangered. Threats to sea turtles include coastal development (which leads to loss of nesting habitat or making previous nesting areas unsuitable), harvesting turtles for eggs or meat, bycatch in fishing gear, entanglement in or ingestion of marine debris, boat traffic, and climate change.

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Explore our wide variety of animal facts and learn some fun trivia about our friends in the animal kingdom.

Fun Turtle Facts for Kids

Check out our range of fun turtle facts for kids. Learn about turtle shells, the biggest turtle species, turtle eggs and much more.

Read on and enjoy a variety of interesting information about turtles.

Turtles are reptiles.

Turtles have a hard shell that protects them like a shield, this upper shell is called a 'carapace'.

Turtles also have a lower shell called a 'plastron'.

Many turtle species (not all) can hide their heads inside their shells when attacked by predators.

Turtles have existed for around 215 million years.

Like other reptiles, turtles are cold blooded.

The largest turtle is the leatherback sea turtle, it can weigh over 900 kg! (2000 lb)
Turtles lay eggs.

In some species of turtle the temperature determines if the egg will develop into a male or female, lower temperatures lead to a male while higher temperatures lead to a female.

Some turtles lay eggs in the sand and leave them to hatch on their own. The young turtles make their way to the top of the sand and scramble to the water while trying to avoid predators.

Sea turtles have special glands which help remove salt from the water they drink.

Many turtle species are endangered.

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Explore our wide variety of animal facts and learn some fun trivia about our friends in the animal kingdom. Fun Turtle Facts for Kids Check out our range of fun turtle facts for kids. Learn about turtle shells, the biggest turtle species, turtle eggs and much more.

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Do you want to know about the Remp`s Ridley sea turtle????   This article is about the Kemp's Ridley.Cheak this article out!

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Stranded on Cape Cod beaches, these Kemp's ridley turtles are getting a helping hand from volunteers and researchers

Cape Cod Bay churns as a frigid gust flicks froth into the air and the surf claws at the beach. I find a tangle of black seaweed on the sand, lift a handful of the wet mess and glimpse the lines of a shell. I grab more seaweed and uncover what I've been searching for: a Kemp's ridley turtle, a member of the world's most endangered species of sea turtle.

It's a long way from the beach in Mexico where the turtles almost certainly hatched. It's so still I doubt it's alive. I pull off my gloves, lift the animal by its foot-wide shell and trot down the beach, holding it in front of me like a priceless porcelain vase. The turtle slowly raises its plum-size head and pops open its small eyes. One flipper flutters, then another. The turtle begins to paddle in the air, as if swimming. I sprint to my car.

Sea turtles already crowd the foyer when I arrive at the Massachusetts Audubon Society's nature center in Wellfleet. People hustle to put each animal on a clean towel in a cardboard box that once held bananas. Here and there a flipper waves, but most of the turtles are motionless. One exhales raspily. Volunteers plucked six turtles off beaches this morning and seven last night. Two are green turtles and the rest are Kemp's ridleys. "I doubt there is a room in the world right now that has this," says Dennis Murley, a naturalist at the center.

Each fall, typically by late October, Kemp's ridleys and other sea turtles start washing up on the 50-mile-long shoreline along Cape Cod Bay between Sandy Neck and Provincetown. The turtles, almost all juveniles, are thought to follow warm summer currents north to Maine or beyond; then, as fall approaches, they head south before inadvertently swimming into the bay formed by the great crooked cape. As the water temperature drops, so does the coldblooded animal's body temperature, until the turtle sinks into a deep torpor, too weak to find its way out of the bay. Turtles do occasionally wash up on other beaches along the East Coast, but only on Cape Cod are substantial numbers found every year.

About half of the turtles on the beach are already dead. The others, called cold-stunned turtles, will die of hypothermia if left on the sand, says Murley, because the air is even colder than the water.

He and Bob Prescott, the Audubon center's director, weigh and measure the turtles. Some move frantically; the one I found, whose shell is coated with algae and has been given the number 93, starts doing the crawl stroke again. Prescott touches the motionless ones on the back of their heads or at the corner of their eyes, looking for a reaction that will tell him they're alive. "Sometimes you can't even tell from that," Prescott says. The center keeps any turtle presumed dead for at least 24 hours. Over the years, Murley says, a few of these have revived. "Lazarus turtles," he calls them.

Most Kemp's ridley turtles nest along Mexico's Gulf coast, but some nest in Texas. This is one of only two sea turtle species that lay eggs in mass nesting groups called arribadas. (The other species, the olive ridley, lives in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.) Some young Kemp's ridleys are thought to swim from the Gulf of Mexico to the Sargasso Sea, in the middle of the Atlantic. As they mature, they paddle west toward shallower water along the coast of North America, where they can live for decades. The world's smallest sea turtles, they grow about two feet long.

Vast numbers of Kemp's ridleys once nested simultaneously; in 1947, a beachgoer filmed some 42,000 turtles on a beach in Mexico. Unfortunately for the species, people liked to eat the eggs, which were easy to harvest, and thought they acted as aphrodisiacs. By the 1960s, the turtle population had plummeted. Mexico outlawed the harvest in 1966, but poaching continued to take a toll. Meanwhile, increasingly scarce adults were often caught in fishing gear. In 1985, only 702 turtle nests were found, the lowest number on record. With new, turtle-excluding fishing nets and better protection of their nesting beaches, the species has begun to recover. An estimated 8,000 females nested last year.

Prescott says the population increase may explain why more Kemp's ridley turtles have recently been found along Cape Cod. When he came across his first one, in 1974, he didn't know what it was doing there. By the 1980s, maybe ten a year washed in, some of them still alive. Prescott and Murley organized a few people to comb the beaches in autumn and early winter. In 1999, they found a record 278, of which 219 were Kemp's ridleys. Since then, the center has maintained a corps of about 100 volunteers, nearly all retirees.

"The easy part is finding them on the beach," Prescott says. "The hard part is the medical treatment."

After the turtles are bundled up at Wellfleet, volunteers and staffers transport them to a clinic at the New England Aquarium in Boston. The clinic is crammed with microscopes, computers and medical equipment as well as tanks of blue water that gurgle and hum.

"Welcome to the real world, Bud," a volunteer in surgical scrubs says to a turtle that she plucks out of a box. She lays the seemingly lifeless animal on an examining table. Jill Gary, a biologist with the aquarium, sinks a needle into the back of its neck and draws out thick, maroon-colored blood. Gary squirts yellow antiseptic into the animal's eyes and checks the cornea for scratches. The volunteer has been holding a monitor to the turtle's heart. "I've had only one heartbeat so far," she says.

Gary inserts a rectal thermometer into the turtle and the animal springs to life. Its temperature is 53.8 degrees Fahrenheit, about 20 degrees below normal. Gary, however, is in no rush to change that.

When people at the aquarium began treating cold-stunned sea turtles extensively, in the mid-1990s, little was known about hypothermia in the animals. Through trial and error and the testing of various medications, they have figured out how to save about 80 percent of the turtles brought into the aquarium.

Charlie Innis, the aquarium's head veterinarian, says the animals die if they warm up too quickly. As the turtle's temperature rises, pathogenic bacteria that have lain dormant in its body also revive. The turtle's immune system, compromised by hypothermia, isn't up to the fight. The turtles are also susceptible to fungal infections. The main danger is pneumonia-about 20 percent of the turtles have it when they arrive, and perhaps 25 percent will contract it here.

The biologists have learned it's best to warm the turtles by about five degrees a day. After each turtle is examined, it is tucked into a square, temperature-controlled contraption that is basically a turtle refrigerator. The temperature is set near the turtle's core body temperature and turned up slightly each day.

At the clinic, a turtle with a body temperature in the 60s is plopped into a waist-high water tank to see how it swims. A volunteer watches to see if it's strong enough to lift its head to breathe. It does, but just barely.

The blood-test results begin to come in from the lab equipment on the other side of the clinic. Most of the turtles are hypoglycemic, a sign that they are starving, and their electrolytes are out of balance, indicating that they are dehydrated. They will be injected with fluids and antibiotics for days, even months in some cases.

The turtle beaching season ends in January; after the water temperature drops to about 40 degrees, nearly all the turtles that wash in are dead. This year volunteers found 200 turtles, the third highest catch. Eighty-five were alive and sent to the aquarium. The staff named the turtles after parks in the United States. The one I found got named Voyageurs, after a national park in northern Minnesota.

The aquarium needed to make room for new arrivals, so it shipped out the turtles that were strong enough to travel. Voyageurs and 16 other survivors were sent to the University of New England in Maine. Three went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, four to the Woods Hole Aquarium in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and three to the Riverhead Foundation on Long Island. The rest, 33 Kemp's ridleys and the three greens, stayed in Boston.

Connie Merigo, a biologist who manages the rescue effort, chooses when to release the sea turtles, usually in late summer. She monitors local sea temperatures, waiting for the water to reach about 70 degrees, and keeps track of turtle sightings offshore, a sign that conditions in the water are good. The turtles are released in Nantucket Sound, where they will have fewer obstacles on their route south. Identification tags will be placed on all animals and several will also receive satellite tags that record where they go.

Last summer, for the first time, a turtle rescued from Cape Cod Bay and tagged at the New England Aquarium was spotted nesting on a beach on Padre Island in Texas. Adam Kennedy, an aquarium biologist, says the rescue team got word of the nest at the beginning of this year's stranding season. The news made it easier to gear up for the coming days of pressure-filled work. "It's just really exciting," he said. "That's what we are here for."

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Have you ever wondered what sea turtles look like when they're swimming? This video is about some sea turtles swimming. I'm not going to tell you anymore stuff so you will have to watch this video and find out.

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The Amazing Sea Turtle - check out the life and habits of sea turtles as they feed and swim in coral reefs Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSzCLOj0MHtBVdVFJTPO1RQ?sub_confirmation=1 Terra Wonder presents the first video in the series about ocean and sea life: amazing footage of exotic marine life and sea turtles swimming around in coral reefs.

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Have you ever seen a baby sea turtles going bonkers over a finger? Well this video is about baby sea turtles going bonkers. Check this clip out!!!!!

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Have you ever seen a sea turtle hatching?You will see a sea turtle hatching hear! In my opinion it's so cute so I hope you think it's cute to!

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This is a nest of baby olive ridley sea turtles hatching on a beach named Largatillo. This was a part of a Documentary i shot on a group of surfers who are saving sea turtles in the area and have made an impressive effort in saving sea turtles nest's from poachers and continue to educate the locals on the importance of there help in the effort to help save there local sea turtles population.

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Have you ever seen a baby sea turtle?Well now you see one. Check this picture out!!!!

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Have you ever seen a baby sea turtle on the sand? I hope you have not! So you can check this picture out.

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1 Will Global Warming ultimately kill off the male population of sea turtles?

2 Can sea turtles live past 80 because it said in the article that they live to 70-80 years old?

3 Do sea turtles lay eggs in the same exact spot they were born.

4. Do sea turtles have teeth?

5 How big can sea turtle get?

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