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Sea Turtles predators are Crabs, raccoons, boars, birds, coyotes,and sharks  all play their role in natural food chain as sea turtle predators.

Adult Sea Turtles have a few predators, mostly large sharks.

Tiger sharks in particular, are known for eating sea turtles.

Killer wales have been known to prey on leatherback turtles.

More than 90% of hatchings are eaten by predators

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All turtles lay their egg on land

The temperature eggs are hatched in determines their gender

Cooler weather usually produces male

Females are produced in warmer weather

After the mother hatched her eggs, she covers them up and leaves them to take care of themselves

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Now climate change is exposing sea turtles to even greater existential threats.

Sea level rise stronger storms will erode and and destroy their beach habitats.

Warming  oceans will change ocean currents, potentially introducing sea turtles to new predators and harming  the coral reefs some of them need to survive.

Since the temperature of the beach sand that female sea turtles nest in influences the gender of their offspring during incubation

Our warming climate may be driving sea turtles into extinction by creating a shortage of males, according to several studies

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Since they are cold-blooded, sea turtles have a slow metabolic rate.

Leatherbacks can dive  4,200 feet deeper than any other turtle and can stay down for up to 85 minutes.

Green Sea Turtles can stay underwater for as long as 5 hours

Other Sea Turtles, leatherback lack a rigid breastbone .

During long dives, blood is shunted away from tissues tolerant of low oxygen levels toward the heart, brain, and central nervous system.

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There are seven different species of sea turtles

Six of them are Green Hawksbill, Kempś ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead

The olive ridley can be found throughout the ocean  in both warm and cool waters.

The seventh species, flatback , live only in  Australia

Sea turtles along with other turtles and tortoises, are part of the order Testudines.

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To mate, a male will climb onto a female back while she swimming horizontally in the water.

On their front flippers, males have long claws, which they use to hook on the leading edge of the femaleś shell, these claws are quite sharp and will often cut into the femaleś soft flesh near her shell.

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Loggerhead: Hatchling are omnivores which mean they eat both animals and plants  but adults are carnivores, favoring crabs, whelks and conchs

Green: Fully grown sea turtles are herbivores and like to hang around coral reefs to scrape off seagrass and algae

Hawksbill: The bird-like beak that gives them their name allows hawksbills to access cracks on coral reefs to reach sea sponges, which are pretty much all these fussy eater want.

Leatherback: Leatherback turtles are often known as gelatin ivores, meaning they only eat invertebrates such as jellyfish and sea  squirts

Flatback: The species will eat everything on the menu for Kempś ridley with a strong preference for crab.

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Are Sea Turtles Vertebrates or Invertebrates

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Are Sea Turtles Vertebrates or Invertebrates

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Sea turtles are among the worldś most ancient vertebrates

Sea Turtles are reptiles, like snakes and lizards, and breathe air.

Their spine is connected to the roof of the inside of their shell

Which is why they can swap shells or get out of the ones they were born with ,or it will kill it

When on land, they  look cumbersome and awkward, their powerful front flippers struggling  to pull their weight across ocean shores.

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They are quiet, shy and harmless yet display intelligence

They can identify their keepers and know when itś feeding time.

Turtles and tortoises are very sensitive to loud noises, vibrations, and sudden bright lights

Move slowly around them as they can be quick to frighten if the feel threatened.

If frightened, most will withdraw their head, legs and tall into their shells; though aquatic turtles will first try to swim quick away

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We do know is that sea turtles even at diminished population levels plays an important role in ocean ecosystems by maintaining healthy seagrass beds and coral reefs

Providing key habitat for other marine life, helping to balance marine food webs and facilitating nutrient cycling from water to land

Without seagrass beds, many marine species humans harvest would be lost ,as would the lower level of the food chain