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The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in the genus Eretmochelys . The species has a global distribution that is largely limited to tropical and subtropical marine and estuary ecosystems.
The hawksbill turtle are one of the few animals known to feed primarily on sponges. It is the only known spongivorous reptile. [1] Sponges of various select species constitute up to 95% of the diets of Caribbean hawksbill turtle populations.
In contrast to their earth-bound relatives, tortoises, sea turtles do not have the ability to retract their heads into their shells. Their plastron, which is the bony plate making up the underside of a turtle or tortoise's shell, is comparably more reduced from other turtle species and is connected to the top part of the shell by ligaments without a hinge separating the pectoral and abdominal ...
Shell Beach, located on the Atlantic coast of Guyana in the Barima-Waini Region, near the Venezuelan border, is a nesting site for four of the eight sea turtle species - the Green, Hawksbill turtle, Leatherback and the Olive Ridley. [2] Shell Beach extends for approximately 120 km. [3]
A hybrid between a hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) and loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Superfamily Testudinoidea. Family Testudinidae. A hybrid between a sulcata tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) and leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis). Family Emydidae. Subfamily Deirochelyinae. Hybrid between red-eared slider and ...
Jonathon Ware broke the internet after a 17-second clip on YouTube made the rounds across social media, which was then in its infancy. The clip shows a local news reporter approaching him at a ...
Many turtles from the same beaches show up at the same feeding areas. Once reaching sexual maturity in the Atlantic Oceans, the female Loggerhead makes the long trip back to her natal beach to lay her eggs. The Loggerhead sea turtle in the North Atlantic cover more than 9,000 miles round trip to lay eggs on the North American shore.
Turtles All the Way Down is based on the bestselling novel by author John Green. The film joins Green’s other successful book-to-screen adaptations: The Fault in Our Stars , Paper Towns and ...