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Green Sea Turtles

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Life Cycles

Green Sea Turtles


Green sea turtles spend most of their
lives in the ocean. However, they start
their life cycle on dry land. At night,
a mother sea turtle leaves the water to

© iStockphoto, Simon Gurney


crawl up on a sandy beach to make a
nest and lay eggs. She chooses a spot
above the waterline for her nest. She
digs a hole in the sand and lays over
100 eggs in the nest. The eggs are soft
and leathery. She buries the eggs in the Green sea turtles grow to weigh as much
as a football player.
sand to protect them from predators—
animals that would eat them. After she
of the sand, the tiny baby turtles make the
buries the eggs, she goes back to the sea
dangerous trip to the sea. Many predators
without seeing her babies hatch.
could eat them along the way. Crabs and
After about two months, the baby birds might grab them as they crawl
turtles, or hatchlings, hatch from the toward the sea. Sharks and other fish
eggs under the sand. They have to might eat them once they reach the sea.
dig their way to the surface. All the
Baby sea turtles make this journey
hatchlings in the nest work together to
without meeting either of their parents.
unbury the group. Once they come out
They inherited the ability to emerge
0 1  cm 2  cm 3  cm 4  cm 5  cm
from the nest, crawl down the beach,
and find the sea. Of the over 100 eggs
in each nest, only a few of the baby sea
turtles will live to be adults. That is a
very dangerous beginning!
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o Why does a mother sea turtle bury


her eggs in the sand?
o What does a baby sea turtle do after
A baby green sea turtle is born knowing it hatches?
the way to the sea.

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