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Facts About Sea Turtles

• Sea turtles live their entire life in the ocean except when the female comes ashore to lay eggs. Males rarely leave the water.
• dults can grow to more than three feet in length and weigh between 250 and 400 pounds.
• Female loggerheads emerge at night to lay from 50 to 175 leathery, ping-pong ball sized eggs. The eggs will hatch 55 to 60 days later.
• Temperature plays a role in whether eggs develop as male or female. Warmer temperatures tend to mean more females, cooler more males.
• Hatchlings emerge from the nest at night and use the light of the horizon to orient themselves to the water.
• Hatchlings weigh less than one ounce and are two inches long.
• Sea turtles have great underwater vision but are nearsighted out of the water.