#rare ranch non-fish post! (and by non-fish i mean tetrapods too)

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..i didnt realize sea turtles could weigh 500lbs .. can you tell me everything you know about sea turtles please :')

(or like. idk. a top 3? 5? fun facts about sea turtles? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT I DONT KNOW)

okaythankubye💖

Sure, I can tell you some stuff! There's seven extant species of sea turtle, and the green sea turtle, the turtle in the post you're referencing, isn't even the biggest! That would be leatherback sea turtle, and it can weigh up to 2 000 lbs (900 kilograms)!!!! Imagine!!!

They're massive turtles, up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) long too! Most specimen are not that big, the average leatherback is supposedly "only" 850~ lbs (400~ kilograms), but the fact that they can reach such sizes is incredible! Other facts, hmm... well, sea turtles can hold their breath for several hours, apparently up to 7 hours when they're sleeping! And six of the seven sea turtle species are unfortunately threatened or endangered, largely due to human activity, pollution, overfishing, unnatural lights, climate change, etc.. Most sea turtle species live about an "average" of 30-80 years, but there's outliers, naturally. I say "average" because most sea turtles die very young, only few freshly hatched sea turtles make it into adulthood! OH OH speaking of hatched sea turtles, their sex is determined by the temperature around them!! I think this is the case with all turtles and tortoises! Eggs exposed to warmer temperatures produce females, and eggs exposed to cooler temperatures (not like, cold, though, that would kill the eggs!) produce males! This is one reason why climate change greatly threatens sea turtles, global warming may lessen the number of male turtles!

Alright! That's about... 15 facts, I think! There you go! Hope you learned some more and hopefully I remembered right on the points I didn't look up to confirm ^^ Sea turtles are so sweet, sideways ocean sunfish.... (/ref)