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Interesting Facts
 Chelonia mydas

 

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  • Green sea turtles willingly come to shore on secluded beaches and sunbathe, this is not common among sea turtle species.

 

 

  • These turtles do not get their name from the color of their shell, rather from the green fat deposits around their internal organs.
            -These fatty deposits are green because of all the algae they eat.

     

  • Even though it is illegal, sea turtles are still hunted.

 

  • A female turtle will lay her eggs on the same beach she was hatched on.
     

 

Prefrontal Scutes http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/turtles/turtle3.htm

 

  • This species of turtles can be distinguished by the single pair of prefrontal scutes*.
            -Scutes would look like nostrils on a turtle

 

 

 

 

 

  • Green Sea Turtles are hunted because they are fleshy turtles, and therefore used in turtle soup.

 

Created by: Melissa Martinelli
Last Updated: April 27th, 2007