Bite-sized sea turtle facts: Meet the green sea turtle with a sawlike beak for an algae-scraping, grass-munching adventure! #diving #ocean #underwater #oceanlife #fish #fishing #fishingtrip #fishingislife #fishinglife | Osean life

Sea Turtle Facts

Our New Patient, “Melody”. 🚑🐢 She’s a lethargic juvenile Green sea turtle who was rescued in Key West, Florida with fibropapillomatosis, critically low blood values, a nick to her caudal carapace, a very heavy tumor load, and a missing part of her back flipper. ❤️‍🩹 Melody will be going for a CT scan tomorrow. Wish her luck! 🍀 The note at the end is from the kids of the rescuers! 🥰 The clips shown are from her intake process. Collecting blood, measurements, photos, x-rays, and cleaning. 🏥

Found this juvenile green sea turtle having a lovely time scratching his back. Did you know that turtles scratch their shells to clean them? This helps them remove any algae or barnacles which can impair the turtles movement and swimming ability. Did you find this interesting? Comment below. Green sea turtles are endangered species. Let’s do all we can to protect them. Please don’t use or dispose of plastic bags near the sea. They can mistake them for jellyfish and consume them. This can cause i

Conservation of Green Sea Turtle