Turtle Essays

The great turtle was not just some ordinary turtle he had something very special about him. The great turtle was named Pete. Pete was just an ordinary turtle until one day his life changed forever. Pete being himself was walking in the grass getting his normal exercise. He also like feeling the warm sun on his shell. Until one day a strange person picked him up and put him in a box. The box was then taken and put in a van and then the van took off. When riding in the van Pete got very scared and

The green turtle is one of the largest of the sea turtle species and the only species that are herbivores, they mostly eat seagrasses, algae and mangroves but they also eat fish and their eggs, jellyfish, sponges and various shellfish. They are named the green turtle because of the colour of their cartilage and fat not the colour of their shell, their shell has dark grey and yellow colouring. Apart from the females the come to the shore to lay eggs, sea turtles spend most of their lives underwater

Hawksbill turtles, although a vital resource to the ecosystem is dwelling in numbers; and is coming close to being extinct. Scientist have conducted in the Caribbean, Columbian, and Hawaiian islands and found a decrease of turtles showing up on shore (Meylan, 1999). Over the years a massive decrease in sea turtles has been affecting the seas due to the impact that humans have had. As of right now there are only five populations around the world that has female turtles nesting 1000s eggs every year

Have you ever wonder how turtles got their shells? It’s questions that have been roaming around in my mind for years. But guess what we finally were able to figure out how turtles got their shell. So imagine this: Evolution Lab just finished on, and you are walking down Lower Lake, and you see your friend Jorge but something is different with Jorge has a new friend visiting him a cute little turtle named Maxine. Maxine is new to the neighborhood and will be joining the Mount Holyoke Campus this

Six of seven species of sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are listed as either vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The largest contributors to the decline seen in sea turtle populations are people, this being due to human activities such as fishing, tourism, shipping, industrial production, and coastal development, which have been scientifically proven to impact all seven species of sea turtles. Plastic pollution found in and around the ocean, light pollution along coastlines

Green sea turtles are an endangered species with a drastically reduced population sizes of 3 to 4 feet. A typical green sea turtle grows to a maximum size of about 4 feet and weight about 440 pounds. They have a heart-shaped shell, small head, and single-clawed flippers. Sea turtles range can be olive-green, yellow, greenish-brown, reddish-brown, or black in color. As for the hatchlings, they generally have a black carapace, white plastron, and white margins on the shell and limbs. The adult carapaces

The Mediterranean Loggerhead Sea Turtles tend to nest in the eastern side of the the sea on the coasts of Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, and parts of northeast Libya and Egypt (Zbinden, Aebischer, Margaritoulis, Arlettaz, 2007). The female adult Loggerheads lay eggs on the beach (terrestrial ecosystem), preferably with coarse sand and a steep incline. The beaches tend to be wide with low dunes in the rear and flat sandy shorelines. However, this is a generalization. Detailed characteristics of the

Sea Turtle Extinction Sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are going extinct. Humans are diminishing and polluting the oceans where the sea turtles swim and live. Pollution such as fertilizers, plastic, and oil in the Gulf of Mexico are causing the sea turtles to become extinct. The ocean is gigantic; many people think that the ocean dilutes the chemicals from the fertilizers that are washed into them. People use fertilizers on their farms, for soil, and for crops. However

Turtles have undergone an interesting history as they evolved from their Eunotosaurus ancestors. Turtles are very good at protecting themselves from predators. Their ancestors go back to as far as 220 million years ago. The turtles hard shell preserve very well which makes their remains very hard to distinguish. I hope you enjoy my turtle evolution research essay. Turtles are reptiles of the order testudines. They have a bony or cartilage hard shell that is used as a shield for protection against

Sea turtles have lived around for 110 million years. Unlike other turtles, They can not put tier limbs and head in their shell. Their shell is more flat than normal turtles so they can swim better. But because of careless fishing, habitat destruction and plastic pollution has made the turtles endangered or threatened. Every year, millions of sea turtles get injured and die from fishing hooks, line, lead sinkers because uneducated or careless anglers leave them behind. People don't realize the

not a hassle. Since I only have a little time, my consideration is efficiency. Let's compare the turtles and the fish! Turtles are animals that can live in 2 realms, water and land. Although on land but it also needs water. The size of the turtle's body can be as small as a baby's fist up to 4m in diameter. That’s why the turtle needs a fairly large area if we keep it from small to large. Long turtle life time, up to hundreds of years can be a satisfaction and pride for the owner. Seeing the growing

Why can’t I just be a normal turtle and not have to worry about anything? Ya I wish but i have to worry about being endangered, It stinks. Plz help me! I mostly live in the sea. When we are active we come to the surface to breathe, when we are under water for several hours. They prefer deeper water or shallow water that directly relates to their diet. The adults turtles eat plants so their herbivores. All the other turtles eat meat so their carnivores, or their omnivores that eat plants and meat

When reading Bernard Nietschmann’s, “Subsistence and Market: When the turtle Collapses” explains the effects of long term hunting of the green turtle in the Caribbean waters. He describes in depth the effects on the communities social and mental state as well as showing the effects of the influences of outside fisheries on the Miskito’s. The site of all this takes place in Caribbean waters of the coast of Nicaragua. The coast is a very abundant place for the Miskito. It offered them a way to sustain

think Green Sea turtles are supposed to get to their nest if they can't crawl over the trash? Green Sea Turtles have been around longer than some dinosaurs. Most people don't think about this when they decide to leave the beach in a worse way then they found it. Humans do many harmful activities such as poaching eggs, constructing homes, and developing coastal areas. If humans don't start doing something about their harmful activities they could make the over 100 million year turtle go extinct. Most

Green Sea Turtles Did you know that the green sea turtles are endangered? I choose them for my research paper because I feel that they are very interesting. I researched their habitat, food, reproduction, conservation activities. After I researched all of that, I feel that I needed more information, so I found their physical description, man’s impact on this animal, and the numbers left. As I write this paper I will tell you about the interesting facts that I found about the green sea turtle. Sea

When Sea turtles are born, they are separated from their habitat, the ocean. Sea turtles have to crawl inch by inch, from the sandy coast to the shore line, in order to find their home. Life for a baby turtle is horrific, they are burdened with the hardship of traveling to their home, but also given the benefit of learning to survive. In the novel Brave New World, Huxley writes about Linda, a former member of the “new world” and her struggles in the world that was left behind. Leaving home is one

Amitav Kohli PD:1 Mr. Shear March 7th, 2023 Yertle The Turtle Writing Task The characters of Yertle the Turtle, Malcolm, King Duncan, King Edward the Confessor, and Macbeth were all unique in their acquisition and loss of power. Some gained power by force and fear, while others obtained it by birth. Yertle the Turtle and Macbeth, from Dr. Seuss’s Yertle The Turtle and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, were both tyrannical dictators who ruled by fear and oppression. They gained power through force and corruption

sea. In fact, they were the largest turtles ever, according to paleontologists. A 12 foot long turtle, and yet they were very gentle. They were a fascinating prehistoric reptile that swam around Earth in the late Cretaceous period with fossils that are found throughout some of the states in the U.S. The archelon was a powerful, but a majestic creature from its time. They have a shell that you wouldn’t see on a regular turtle you find in your backyards. Most turtles you see now have hard shells that

was a very large oval shaped animal. It was a enormous snapping turtle; by far the largest I had ever seen in person. The place that we were fishing was called “The Turtle Log”. The reason for that name is that there is a fallen tree in the lake that all kinds of turtles hang out on. My brother and I had come up with the name. It is a joke that my grandpa and I had made, that every time we fish at that spot, one of us has to hit a turtle with their hook. We thought it would bring good luck to our fishing

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Bathyergidae Genus: Heterocephalus The Heterocephalus glaber, more commonly known as the Naked Mole-rat, is a burrowing mammal with unique features suited to an underground environment. Naked Mole-rats are the only mammalian thermoconformer, which means they don’t have the ability to thermally regulate their own body temperature. The naked-mole rat is neither a mole, nor a rat, but is a rodent closely related to Guinea