Sea Turtles🐢

Sea Turtles🐢
I am learning to write to inform my audience with an explanation.

What is almost terrible when crawling on land but is amazing at swimming in the ocean? Yes, it is none other than, the sea turtle. The sea turtle (chelonioidea) has been around for 150,000 years, aeons, since the time of the jurassic! These types of marine animals are a maraculice, endangered, reptile, which means that they are cold blooded. Their family name is cheloniidae and can be found throughout at least 80 countries! To this day, every adult sea turtle has faced the odds and overcome them, from when they were just an egg.

High on the sandy shores of the exact same she was born in, an adult female sea turtle will crawl up the beach, past the high tide mark and dig a hole to lay her eggs in. The eggs are leathery and about the size of a ping-pong ball. Depending on the weather and type of turtle, it can take up to longer than 70-80 days. Of all the 110-1000 eggs laid approximately 20% will never hatch.

Once hatched the little turtles will squirm up to the surface and desperately race to the sea, but of the 20% hatched about 50% will perish. It may seem like the turtles that made it are lucky but no, they just traded one set of dangers for another. Fish, and many other marine animals are big dangers for baby sea turtles, along with sea birds like gulls as the young turtles come up for air. The little turtles then look for shelter, (possibly some floating seaweed) and try to avoid being seen, or getting harmed harsh weathers, and treacherous currents. Through all these dangers only around 50% will make it to young adulthood.

Eventually the turtles will grow and for one species, the leatherback to the size of a dinner table! Although size can give protection a turtle’s life is always filled with dangers, like sharks, for example, Bull sharks, Tiger sharks, White sharks, and of course the occasional Killer whale (Orca). With this again only around 50% will survive to breeding age.

Finally, the breeding age! Here the sea turtles are old enough to mate and the females then reproduce (lay eggs). The sea turtle has already faced challenges in life and they always will, because of nature selection of predators, and the unnatural human interference (Pollution). 

When the eggs hatch, the little turtles race to the ocean ready to start the cycle once more.