Sea Turtle Facts – 60 Unknown Facts About Sea Turtles

Sea Turtles Facts

Only 1 in 1000 eggs will survive to adulthood.

Green sea turtle is omnivores when young, but in adulthood it mostly feeds on plants.

Sea turtles have been around for 110 million years, since the time of dinosaurs.

Sea turtles cannot retract their legs and head into their shells.

The common food of sea turtles is jellyfish, seaweed, shrimps, crabs, sponges, algae, mollusks, snails.

There are 7 species of sea turtles.

6 of the 7 species of sea turtles are endangered.

Sea turtles body is protected by a shell called carapace.

Sea turtles spend most of their life in the ocean.

Female sea turtle return to the same beach where she was born for nesting season.