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The sea turtle is one of the ocean’s most fascinating, ancient, and distinguished reptiles, renowned for its vital role in the marine ecosystem. With seven distinct species, sea turtles inhabit ...
Sea turtles in all types are being endangered by the way humans use plastic. Recycling is known of and people recycle but not everyone does. The amount of plastic in the oceans and beaches is growing every day. The littering [151] of plastic is 80% of the amount. When turtles hatch from their eggs on the beach, they are already endangered with ...
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 ...
All but one species of sea turtles are endangered due to destruction of nesting habitats on coastal lands, exploitation, and marine fishing; [6] many species of sea snakes are threatened or endangered due to commercial exploitation (sale of skins) and pollution especially in Asia; marine iguanas are threatened due to their very limited ...
Dermochelyidae is a family of sea turtles which has seven extinct genera and one extant genus, containing one living species, the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). The oldest fossils of the group date to the Late Cretaceous .
The necks of turtles are highly flexible, possibly to compensate for their rigid shells. Some species, like sea turtles, have short necks while others, such as snake-necked turtles, have long ones. Despite this, all turtle species have eight neck vertebrae, a consistency not found in other reptiles but similar to mammals. [31]
Hydrophis cyanocinctus (Annulated sea snake, blue-banded sea snake) Hydrophis elegans (Elegant sea snake) Hydrophis fasciatus (Striped sea snake) Hydrophis gracilis (Graceful small-headed sea snake, slender sea snake) Hydrophis inornatus (Plain sea snake) Hydrophis klossi (Kloss' sea snake) Hydrophis lapemoides (Persian Gulf sea snake)
Americhelydia is a clade of turtles that consists of sea turtles, snapping turtles, the Central American river turtle and mud turtles, supported by several lines of molecular work. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Prior to these studies some morphological and developmental work have considered sea turtles to be basal members of Cryptodira and kinosternids ...
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