Sea turtles are born on land buried in the sand with 1000 or so brothers and sisters. They hatch and begin the crawl instinctively toward the ocean, where predators are eagerly awaiting. Roughly the size of your palm, they can eventually grow to 15 feet long and live up to 100 years, but only if they survive the first day. Female turtles that survive will instinctively return to the beach where they were born to lay eggs, sometimes within feet of where they hatched many years earlier.
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| Sea turtle in shallow water |
Sea turtles have been regular subject of tattoos since long before the current popularity of body ink. It was traditional for seamen in the Navy to get a sea turtle tattoo as an indicator that they had crossed the equator.
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