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	Green Turtle - MSN Encarta
		Green Turtle, common name for a large sea turtle, named for the color of its fat, although the animal is brownish overall.
		The green turtle is common in all warm seas and may sometimes be found, in summertime, along the North Atlantic coasts of the United States and Europe.
		It can be distinguished from other sea turtles in that it has a single pair of large plates lying on top of the head between the eyes, a relatively smooth shell lacking any ridges, and only four large, nonoverlapping plates on each side of the shell.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559951/Green_Turtle.html (288 words)

	CTTC - The Green Sea Turtle by Gregory A. Forbes
		The green sea turtle is one of seven species of sea turtles and the largest of the Family Chelonidae that includes the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), the Kemp's or Atlantic ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), the olive or Pacific ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), and the Australian flatback (Natator depressa).
		Although studying sea turtle populations is not easy, a more important factor influencing our low priority assigned to sea turtle studies has been the optimistic attitude that "there will always be more sea turtles." We are now painfully aware that this is not going to be the case with the endangered green turtle.
		Although the life cycle of the sea turtle has been the basis for it success, it is this very same life cycle that has proven detrimental to the green turtle in the presence of humans.
	www.tortoise.org /archives/green.html (1490 words)

	Green Sea Turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Females lay their eggs on traditional nesting beaches, and the turtles often bask in the sand to warm their ectothermic bodies, but otherwise this species is entirely marine.
		The green sea turtle was so named because of the green color of its body fat.
		The Hawaii and Southern California green sea turtles are designated threatened, and the Florida and Mexico populations are endangered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_turtle (639 words)

	Green Sea Turtle
		The green turtle is named for the color of its fat, not for its overall coloration.
		Green sea turtles are generally found in shallow waters along reefs, in bays and estuaries.
		Green turtle soup is a delicacy in most areas where the turtle is found.
	www.seaturtleinc.com /turtles/green.html (362 words)

	Turtles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Green sea turtles are cold blooded and the adults are two to four feet long.
		Green sea turtles are the most endangered of the Hawaiian sea creatures.
		Green sea turtles are close to extinction because people keep taking them from their habitat and they are often eaten by Tiger sharks.
	library.thinkquest.org /6067/cgi-bin/Resources/turtles.html (366 words)

	The Atlantic Green Turtle
		Green turtles continue to be heavily exploited by humans, and the destruction and loss of nesting and foraging sites is a serious problem.
		The plastron of Atlantic green turtles remains a yellowish white throughout life, but the carapace changes colour from fl to various shades of gray, green, brown and fl, forming swirls and irregular patterns on their shells.
		Because green turtles feed in marine pastures in quiet, low-energy areas, but nest on high energy beaches, their feeding and nesting habitats are, of necessity, located some distance apart.
	www.turtles.org /atlgrnd.htm (1278 words)

	Ocean Life: Green Sea Turtle - Characteristics
		Green Sea Turtles get their name from the color of their body fat, which is green from the algae or grasses they eat.
		Green Sea Turtles are reptiles whose ancestors evolved on land and returned to the sea to live.
		Turtles are one of the few species that watched the dinosaurs evolve and become extinct.
	www.onr.navy.mil /focus/ocean/life/turtle1.htm (608 words)

	Turtle Time : Species : Distribution, Attributes and Diet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fat of the green turtle and its calipee, a gelatin-like cartilage, are used to make turtle soup, a much-sought-after delicacy in some countries.
		Another burden the green turtle shoulders is the tumor-like growths called fibropapillomas.
		The population size of the green turtle is unknown and scientists are unsure if the population continues to dwindle or if its numbers have grown in recent years.
	www.turtletime.org /green.htm (383 words)

	Green Turtle
		Turtle meat and eggs provided a seemingly unending supply of protein, and turtles could be kept alive on ships for long voyages by turning them on their backs in a shaded area of the deck.
		The green turtles of Florida are a remnant of a much larger population that was hunted to the edge of extinction.
		Green turtles have a constant and plentiful source of food with few competitors, but the trade-off is that their growth rate and reproductive output are lower than if their diet were more nutritious.
	www.2fla.com /greenturtle.htm (2130 words)

	The Hawaiian Green Turtle
		The plastron of the Hawaiian green turtle becomes orange or yellowish orange, and the carapace remains predominantly fl with various shades of olive and yellowish gold forming swirls and irregular patterns on their shells.
		Growth rates of pelagic-stage Hawaiian green turtles (during their Lost Years) have not been measured under natural conditions, since contact with them is extremely rare.
		The Hawaiian green turtle is fortunate that it shares only some of the same threats that menace all marine turtles, as described in Threats To Marine Turtles.
	www.turtles.org /hawgrnd.htm (1645 words)

	The Green Turtle's Tale - National Zoo\| FONZ
		That turtles remain at all in the Caribbean is due largely to the efforts of one manâ”the late Archie Carr, a University of Florida zoologist who was hailed as "the greatest conservation biologist of these troubled times" in a tribute written after his death in 1987.
		Studies inspired by Carr have also confirmed that green turtles return to nest on the beach where they were born, according to DNA studies by Brian Bowen of the University of Florida and former-Carr student Anne Meylan of the Florida Marine Research Institute in Melbourne Beach.
		Unlike adults, green turtle hatchlings are carnivorous and feed on all kinds of creatures from worms to crustaceans to insects.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /publications/zoogoer/1999/5/greenturtlestale.cfm (3003 words)

	EuroTurtle - Green Sea Turtle
		The population of green Turtles in the Mediterranean is thought to be isolated from other populations.
		339–360 female green turtles are estimated to nest annually in the region.
		Generally, the green turtle nests within the tropical latitudes, on gently shelving sandy beaches protected from the sea.
	www.euroturtle.org /outline/green4.htm (1383 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Atlantic Green Turtle lives in the Atlantic Ocean and has been seen off the shores of Europe and North America The Eastern Pacific Green Turtle (sometimes called the Black Sea Turtle because of its dark colored carapace) has been seen off the coasts of Alaska, through California, and to Chile.
		The shell of the Eastern Pacific Green Turtle is higher and narrower.
		Combined with threats posed by humans, sea turtles are one of the most threatened groups of animals on the planet.
	www.colszoo.org /animalareas/shores/gturtle.html (551 words)

	GREEN SEA TURTLES
		Green sea turtles are reptiles whose ancestors evolved on land and returned to the sea to live about 150 million years ago.
		The baby turtles are able to break through the eggshell and hatch by chipping away at the shell with a structure called an egg tooth, a temporary hard protuberance on their beaks.
		Green sea turtles, as well as other sea turtles in Hawaii, are fully protected under both the federal Endangered Species Act (see Appendix 2) and under Hawaii state law.
	earthtrust.org /wlcurric/turtles.html (3139 words)

	Australian Museum - Wild Kids - Reptiles - Green Turtle
		Green Turtles live in the seas and coasts around Australia, mostly in tropical waters.
		Green Turtles use their senses of smell and sight to find food.
		Green Turtles swim with their flippers when in the water.
	www.amonline.net.au /wild_kids/reptiles/green_turtle.htm (201 words)

	Green sea turtle
		Green sea turtles have a serrated beak for tearing vegetation.
		Green sea turtles are found in all tropical and subtropical seas along the coasts of continents and islands.
		Worldwide, Green sea turtle population declines are largely due to the harvest of both the turtles and their eggs.
	www.aqua.org /animals_greenseaturtle.html (634 words)

	Critter Corner \| Green Sea Turtle
		Compared to land-dwelling turtles, the green sea turtle has a lighter and more streamlined shell and its front and rear legs have evolved into flippers that enable it to swim long distances.
		Although the enormous Hawaiian green sea turtle is graceful in the water, it is clumsy on land.
		The green sea turtle is now listed as threatened in Hawaii and is already endangered on the Florida coast and the Pacific coast of Mexico.
	www.refugenet.org /critter/seaturtle.html (990 words)

	Caribbean Conservation & Sea Turtle Survival League :: Florida Juvenile Green Turtle Tracking Project
		Researchers believe that when this size class of green sea turtles is encountered, they are nearly ready to leave the central east coast of Florida and travel to the next level of developmental habitat, which may be the adult foraging grounds for some of them.
		The turtle measured 62.8 cm straight carapace length at the time she was captured and weighed 36.2 kg.
		Annie is a large green turtle of a size class not seen by the UCF group in nearly 30 years of netting.
	www.cccturtle.org /sat24.htm (2124 words)

	Chelonia mydas, Green Sea Turtle at MarineBio.org
		Although sea turtles cannot withdraw their heads into their shells, the adults are protected from predators by their shells, large size, and thick scaly skin on their heads and necks.
		Turtles can rest or sleep underwater for several hours at a time but submergence time is much shorter while diving for food or to escape predators.
		When the last egg is laid, the turtle covers the eggs with sand, tamps down the sand with her plastron, and flings more sand about with her flippers to erase any signs of the nest.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=51 (1300 words)

	Marine Turtles - Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Green turtles occur in seaweed-rich coral reefs and inshore seagrass pastures in tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region.
		Green turtles nesting along the WA coast migrate from feeding grounds in Indonesia, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
		Adult greens feed mostly on seaweeds and seagrasses although immature greens are carnivorous.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/species/turtles/green.html (256 words)

	Green Turtle
		Female green turtles return to the same beaches regularly and in great numbers to lay their eggs.
		The green turtle was once common in the warm oceans of the world, but has become increasingly scarce in areas where it is commercially exploited.
		Although 58 countries have helped to protect the green turtle by joining an international convention controlling the import, export, and use of endangered species, the demand for turtle soup, "turtle oil" for cosmetics, and turtle skin for shoe leather has encouraged a continuing, and often illegal, trade.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/gnturtle.htm (192 words)

	April - Green Sea Turtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A green sea turtle's shell is different from turtles that live on the land.
		Sea turtles are able to swim long distances and adult male sea turtles spend their entire lives in the water.
		Female sea turtles return to land, to the same beach where they were born, to lay their eggs approximately every two years.
	www.aqua.org /cometolife_kc_greenseaturtle.html (217 words)

	Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Conservation
		Green sea turtles inhabit temperate and tropical waters in Central America, the Bahamas and the United States (To see a map of green turtle ranges: www.cccturtle.org/green.htm.
		Green sea turtles are strictly herbivorous sea turtles and subsist mainly on marine algae and grasses.
		The greatest threats green sea turtles face are harvesting of their eggs by poachers and the selling of adult sea turtle meat and turtle parts as jewelry.
	www.earlham.edu /~breckme/green_sea_turtles.htm (1405 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science » Headlines » Hawaiian Green Turtle
		This population is one of the few in the Hawaiian Islands that have not been stricken with a fatal tumor-disease known as green turtle fibropapallomatosis.
		"The healthy juvenile turtle population at Kaloko Honokohau NHP may be vital in the future to the perpetuation of the Hawaiian stock of green turtles" says park coral reef ecologist, Sallie Beavers.
		Sea turtles are an integral part of the parks' many marine resources that are enjoyed by the public and are studied by the staff and other researchers.
	www.nature.nps.gov /headlines/greenturtle.cfm (540 words)

	WWF \| Marine Turtles \| Green Turtle
		Green turtles are found throughout the tropics, particularly near continental coasts and around islands, and have been recorded in temperate waters.
		The only herbivorous marine turtle, the species feeds mainly on seagrasses, flowering plants in shallow coastal waters.
		An estimated 100,000 green turtles are killed around the Indo-Australian archipelago each year.
	www.worldwildlife.org /turtles/species/gt.cfm (171 words)

	Turtle's Book Nook And Sea Turtle Page Where You Can Learn About Sea Turtles And Find Links To Sea Turtle Organizations ...
		Sea Turtles The best-known marine turtles are in the family that contains the green, loggerhead, hawksbill, and ridley turtles; the huge leatherback turtle is placed in a separate family.
		When female sea turtles crawl above the tide line to bury their eggs, they and their large egg clutches are easy prey to shoreline predators and especially to human turtle hunters, who prize the meat and eggs of the green turtle.
		Also, because of diminishing nesting grounds due to shore development and the drowning of turtles in fishing trawls, the green turtle is close to extinction, and most species of sea turtles are endangered.
	members.tripod.com /~Turtle28 (1350 words)

	Green Sea Turtle
		Green Sea Turtle hatchlings weigh less than 1 ounce and are 5 to 10 centimeters in length.
		Since the sex of turtle hatchlings is determined by incubation temperature, the sex ratio of hatchlings may be changed when trees are planted to provide shade on beaches.
		Green Sea Turtles, which are currently an endangered species, are protected in the United States under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, and under international standards, like those of CITES, which protects green sea turtles in over 150 countries (CITES 2001).
	www.earlham.edu /~klostma/greenseaturtle.htm (1268 words)

	Caribbean Conservation & Sea Turtle Survival League :: Green Sea Turtle Information & Map
		For comparison, the Pacific green turtle (aka Black Sea Turtle) has a body that is strongly elevated or vaulted and looks less round in a frontal view than other green sea turtles.
		The color is where you see the biggest difference with Pacific greens having a dark grey to fl carapace and the hatchlings are a dark-brown or fl with narrow white border with white underneath.
		Once green turtles reach 8 to 10 inches in length, they mostly eat sea grass and algae, the only sea turtle that is strictly herbivorous as an adult.
	www.cccturtle.org /green.htm (637 words)

	Abaco Bahamas Hotel Resort: Green Turtle Club and Marina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Located on green turtle cay the green turtle club has a renowned reputation as one of the finest abaco hotels.
		The ferry dock to green turtle cay is just 5 minutes from treasure cay airport (tcb).
		So if it is adventure or to relax at a deluxe bahamas hotel you can find what you are looking for at the green turtle club and marina.
	www.greenturtleclub.com (242 words)

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