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Turtles 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)

Green Sea Turtle Adult green sea turtles grow to a length of four feet (1.3 meters) and range from 250 to 450 pounds (113-204 kilograms). Green sea turtles are generally found in shallow waters along reefs, in bays and estuaries. Green sea turtles are known to migrate long distances (up to 1400 miles) between feeding grounds and nesting beaches. www.seaturtleinc.com /turtles/green.html   (362 words)

CTTC - The Green Sea Turtle by Gregory A. Forbes 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. www.tortoise.org /archives/green.html   (1490 words)

Ecology of the Not-So-Lowly Green Sea Urchin Green sea urchins are external spawners, meaning they release their gametes into the water column where the eggs are fertilized by the sperm. On the east coast of Nova Scotia, the green sea urchin is the dominant grazer of seaweeds or macroalgae in rocky subtidal environments. By the early 1990's, dense populations of sea urchins had re-occupied the shallow subtidal zone along much of the coast - presumably due to migration of adult sea urchins from deeper water which serves as a thermal refuge from the disease - and kelp beds were once again on the decline. www.elements.nb.ca /theme/wildlife/chris/chris.htm   (1336 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. Green Sea Turtle populations of Hawaii are threatened and protected in Hawaii under state law. www.onr.navy.mil /focus/ocean/life/turtle1.htm   (608 words)

PI-Green Sea Turtle The carapace of adult Green Sea Turtles is light to dark brown, sometimes shaded with olive, with radiating wavy or mottled markings of a darker color or with large blotches of dark brown. In the Pacific United States (U.S.) and its territories, Green Sea Turtles are found along the coasts of Hawai`i, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), unincorporated U.S. island possessions, and a small resident group in San Diego Bay, California. Green Sea Turtle populations have declined dramatically in the Pacific islands. www.fws.gov /pacificislands/wesa/grnturtindex.html   (679 words)

Gander Academy's 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 green sea turtle is the largest of the hard-shelled marine turtles, reaching an average size of 500 lbs. Green turtles have been prized for thousands of years for their meat, commonly being referred to as the cattle of the oceans. www.cdli.ca /CITE/st_green.htm   (547 words)

Alabama Sea Turtle "Share the Beach" volunteer program Green Sea Turtles range throughout the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans primarily in the tropical regions. Although sea turtles are subject to predation throughout their life cycle, predation is particularly high during the first two years of life. Although international trade of wild Green Sea Turtles is against the law, capturing turtles for local consumption still persists in many central Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia and Indonesia, Indian Ocean islands, east coasts of Africa and Arabian peninsula, in Central and South America, and in Mexico. www.alabamaseaturtles.com /about   (1575 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   (655 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)

Green Sea Turtle Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) The only sea turtle with four large costal plates on each side of its smooth-edged shell, the green sea turtle is olive-brown to fl above and yellowish-white below. Green sea turtles are believed to be long lived (20+ years), but longevity in the wild is also unknown. In the Atlantic Ocean, green sea turtles are found from Massachusetts south to Florida, and throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/grtufs.html   (615 words)

April - Green Sea Turtle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) 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)

Turtles of Pakistan: Green Sea Turtle The Green Turtle is the largest of the hard-shelled sea turtles. The Green Turtle is the largest of the hard-shelled sea turtles (the Leatherback Dermochelys can grow much larger) although size, weight, and carapace shape can vary markedly between different populations. Green Turtle nests are laid throughout the year, with most nests occurring between July and December. www.wildlifeofpakistan.com /ReptilesofPakistan/greenseaturtle.htm   (777 words)

Green Sea Turtle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) is a large sea turtle, the only member of the genus Chelonia (Brongniart, 1800). 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_Sea_Turtle   (1180 words)

Ocean Life: Green Sea Turtle - Adaptation Although Green Sea Turtles live most of their life in the ocean, adult females must return to land to lay their eggs. Green Sea Turtles (courtesy of Kathy Streeter, New England Aquarium). Baby sea turtles are able to chip through the eggshell with a structure called an egg tooth, a temporary hard protuberance on their beaks. www.onr.navy.mil /focus/ocean/life/turtle3.htm   (579 words)

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles Green Sea Turltes are threatened by entanglement in nets, coastal pollution, and loss of habitat. Green Sea turtles can be colored from dark brown to olive with lighter stripes and spots. The green sea turtle, called Honu in Hawaiian, is featured in mythology, petroglyphs and as aumakua (personal family gods and guardians). www.sailhawaii.com /turtle.html   (761 words)

Maui SCUBA Diving Training and Tours - Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles at Turtle Reef Kaanapali Beach Molokini Lanai Kihei ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Green turtles prefer to live near large "pastures" of limu that are located in near shore waters around the Hawaiian Islands. Sea turtles are graceful saltwater reptiles, well adapted to life in their marine world. Hawaii's green turtles migrate up to 800 miles from their feeding areas near the coast of the main islands to nesting beaches in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. home.hawaii.rr.com /mauiscubadiving/hawaiian.sea.turtles.htm   (1214 words)

Fast-Growing Green Sea Turtles at Maui Ocean Center Green sea turtles also suffer from a marine disease called fibropapilloma, which causes large tumors. Sea turtles are members of one of only three groups of marine reptiles. Unlike the green sea turtle, which nests on unpopulated sand shoals, the hawksbill lays its eggs on Hawaii’s main islands. www.travellady.com /ARTICLES/article-greenseaturtles.html   (1223 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. Hawaii's green sea turtles migrate as far as 800 miles from their feeding areas along the coasts of the main Hawaiian islands to their nesting beaches in the Northwestern Hawaiian islands. 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)

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle The juvenile Green Sea Turtles feed on plankton and fish eggs floating near the ocean surface. Green Sea Turtle mating starts in March and their eggs are laid in late-April and September. Green Sea Turtles live in the main Hawaiian Islands, but during mating season travel to French Shoals in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. filebox.vt.edu /users/lbeers/green_sea_turtle.htm   (380 words)

Green Turtle Green turtles are reported to be strong swimmers, capable of speeds of 0.88 to 1.4 miles per hour. Green turtles can be distinguished from most other sea turtles by the single pair of scales on the front of the head. 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)

Sea Turtle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) Human activity has greatly reduced the sea turtle population through capture, harvesting of eggs, alteration and destruction of nesting beaches, ocean pollution, and fishing and shrimp nets. The green sea turtle usually lives among sea grass and measures 36 to 43 inches and weighs 200 to 300 pounds. The smallest and the most endangered of all the sea turtles, the Kemp's Ridley has an oval-shaped shell that is olive-grey in color. www.npca.org /marine_and_coastal/marine_wildlife/seaturtles.asp   (336 words)

Chelonia mydas, Green Sea Turtle at MarineBio.org The closely related Flatback sea turtle is a little smaller than the Green sea turtle and lives off the coast of Northern Australia. Sea turtles are some of the largest turtles in the world and live in almost every ocean of the world. Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) - NOAA Fisheries www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=51   (1525 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)

DISCOVERING GREEN TURTLES Studies also found that the major threats to the green turtle population in Galapagos are the native scarab beetle Omorgus suberosus and introduced wild pigs, species that prey directly on the turtles’ eggs and hatchlings. Efforts will also be made to genetically identify the green turtle population of Galapagos and to train personnel in the specific field techniques and methodology for working with turtles. 2.- Depredation on emergent hatchlings from the nests to the sea www.darwinfoundation.org /marine/greenseaturt.html   (1042 words)

Save the Turtles of Parismina Costa Rica - Sea Turtles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) The only sea turtle that is strictly herbivorous as an adult, eating primarily sea grass and algae after it reaches 8-10 inches in length. Green turtles spend most of their lives in the ocean near the coastline and around islands. Green turtles only nest during the night, when the female climbs out of the ocean to an area in the upper beach. www.costaricaturtles.com /green.html   (860 words)

The green sea turtle, also know by its scientific name, Chelonia mydas, is a reptile The green sea turtle, also know by its scientific name, Chelonia mydas, is a reptile. Adult green sea turtles are herbivores (they eat only plants) and primarily eat algae, called limu. Green sea turtles are typically found in warm, tropical oceans throughout the world. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ahelmrei/green/seaturtle.htm   (287 words)

Green Sea Turtle Green Sea Turtle hatchlings weigh less than 1 ounce and are 5 to 10 centimeters in length. While the illegal capture of Green Sea Turtles is uncommon in the U.S., it is rather common in the Caribbean and is a large problem (ORF 2000). 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)

Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries Scientists estimate green turtles reach sexual maturity anywhere between 20 and 50 years, at which time females begin returning to their natal beaches (i.e., the same beaches where they were born) every 2-4 years to lay eggs. Green turtles primarily use three types of habitat: oceanic beaches (for nesting), convergence zones in the open ocean, and benthic feeding grounds in coastal areas. The principal cause of the historical, worldwide decline of the green turtle is long-term harvest of eggs and adults on nesting beaches and juveniles and adults on feeding grounds. www.nmfs.noaa.gov /pr/species/turtles/green.htm   (1450 words)

The Atlantic Green Turtle 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. Growth rates of pelagic-stage green turtles have not been measured under natural conditions; however, growth rates of green turtles have been measured at their feeding grounds. Green sea turtles are listed as threatened or endangered throughout their habitat. www.turtles.org /atlgrnd.htm   (1278 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)

Sea Creatures 101: Sea Turtles: Green Green sea turtles were used for this soup because of their under-shell. Green sea turtles are not as abundant as years ago, yet people still capture and kill them for food, for their shells, and for their eggs. There are actually two types of Green sea turtles, the Atlantic green turtle, which has been found in the Atlantic Ocean near Europe and North America, and the Black sea turtle which has been found in the Eastern Pacific near Alaska, California, and Chile. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/aquatic_animals/99051   (409 words)

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