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  2. Hawksbill sea turtle - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sea turtle - Wikipedia

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    The leatherback sea turtle is the largest sea turtle, reaching 1.4 to more than 1.8 m (4.6 to 5.9 ft) in length and weighing between 300 and 640 kg (661 to 1,411 lbs). [11] Other sea turtle species are smaller, ranging from as little as 60 cm (2 ft) long in the case of the Kemp's ridley, which is the smallest sea turtle species, to 120 cm (3.9 ...

  4. Sea turtle migration - Wikipedia

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    Green sea turtles and hawksbill sea turtles shuttle between fixed foraging and nesting sites. Both species of ridley sea turtle nest in large aggregations, arribadas. [17] This is thought to be an anti-predator adaptation — there are simply too many eggs for the predators to consume. One unifying aspect of sea turtle migrations is their ...

  5. Cheloniidae - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Category:Eretmochelys - Wikipedia

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    Hawksbill sea turtle This page was last edited on 22 March 2013, at 06:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. ‘Babies have hatched!’: Turtles emerging from Lowcountry ...

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    More than 300 nests have been recorded on Hilton Head Island and more than 120 on Hunting Island so far in 2022. Those local nests are among the 5,600 nests that have been counted so far statewide.

  8. Endangered sea turtles - Wikipedia

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    Green Sea Turtle grazing seagrass. Green Turtles, named for its green, fatty underside and cartilage, are significantly larger than the Hawksbill and can be recognized by a single pair of prefrontal scales . [7] Green turtles average 3-4 feet in carapace length, and weigh between 240 and 420 pounds once fully grown. [8]

  9. Jiquilisco Bay - Wikipedia

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    The hawksbill is one of only three sea turtle species listed as Critically Endangered (CR) on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. In the eastern Pacific Ocean, the species is extremely rare and as recently as 2007 most researchers thought hawksbills had been completely eliminated in this region of the world.