The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

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Do you know what reptile lives in the sea? If you guessed sea turtles, then you are right! They have been around for roughly one hundred and fifty million years! There are seven known species of sea turtles and six of those species are endangered because of human interference. The cycle of the sea turtle goes through the egg stage, baby sea turtle stage, and finally the adulthood stage. The first stage is the egg stage.

To start off, the female sea turtle goes onto a high piece of land and starts digging a deep hole to lay her eggs in. The turtle eggs are the size of a white leathery ping pong ball. After about a month and a half, the eggs start to hatch. Approximately 20% of eggs do not hatch. When the baby sea turtles have hatched they squirm out of their cozy warm cracked eggs. The sea turtles now have to be aware as they go into the sea because there are predators such as crabs, holes and seabirds.

Approximately 50% of little baby sea turtles make it to the water but as their body gets deeper, a whole lot of predators await them such as, various fish, killer whales and dolphins. For about several months the baby sea turtles will try to avoid the predators. The baby sea turtles will also try to be aware of themselves because they might try to eat themselves. They face challenging weather as they swim along the sea surface. For about another several months the baby sea turtles turn into adults.

The adult stage is when the sea turtles start to find somewhere to settle. The adult sea turtles range in size from as small as a dinner plate to as big as a dinner table. But because of humans only 1% of adult sea turtles will survive because of contagious chemicals that the humans are using as well as oil, fishing rods, plastic, and lots of rubbish. Also approximately 2% of adulthood sea turtles will be able to progress with breeding age but only with human interference. So sea turtles have a pretty hard time surviving through their life cycle.

To conclude, sea turtles have three stages in their life cycle however the more pollution humans put on earth the harder it is for these creatures to survive. We need to do something now or else these wonderful animals will be extinct.