Chelonioidea

It’s True!

• Sea turtles are immune to the sting of a box jellyfish, and by eating them, they keep tropical beaches safer for human use.
• They can stay underwater for 5 hours; its heart rate can slow to just 1 beat every 9 minutes, which conserves oxygen.
• A female sea turtle will return to the same beach where she was hatched, to deposit 60 - 200 eggs that she buries in the sand.
• With a fossil record older than the dinosaurs, sea turtles today are endangered by entrapment, pollution, and poaching.