The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle🐢

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation.




Did you know there was an animal that was here since the dinosaurs and they have been living in the sea? You probably know what this is about, a sea turtle.There are seven types of sea turtles in the world. Six are endangered but people are trying to help them survive. Every sea turtle goes through the life cycle.There are three stages in this life cycle, the egg stage, the baby turtle stage and the adulthood stage.




When the female turtle comes onto the beach she digs a hole as long as her foot and she lays 100-110 leathery ping pong ball eggs in the hole, buries it and heads back to the water. After 45-80 days they hatch into baby turtles.




When the new turtles have dug out of the sand the baby sea turtles face many dangers. Such as crabs, birds, racoons and more but as they get to the water there is even more! The water dangers they face are sharks, water birds, fish and more including things from humans like plastic or oil. They eat things like jellyfish.




After a month it will grow into an adult, even though they are big, sharks can still eat them and human things like oil and plastic are killing them.Then the male turtle comes and mates with a female and the cycle happens again.




Sea turtles might be the oldest creatures on earth but things humans do and other animals are affecting the life cycle, so we should stop harming them to let the cycle continue.