Like other sea turtles, green sea turtles migrate long distances betweend feeding grounds and hatching beaches. There are many islands now that are known as Turtle Islands, as the Green Sea ones nest on those beaches, making it a really marvelous show to watch, more like a one life-time experience when it comes to animals and their wonderful world. These turtles can be spotted throughout the entire Atlantic Ocean, swimming mostly into coastal waters. Individuals have been seen as far north as Canada, as well as in the British Isles in the east. Yet, major nesting sites can be found on several Caribbean Islands, along the eastern shore of the continental United States of America and isolated even in North Atlantic islands.

As being some of the largest sea turtles, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean, no wonder Green Sea Turtles have a very mysterious past. In terms of food, scientists consider that young green turtles are more omnivorous than adults, as they are likely feeding with crustaceans, jellyfish, worms and other small creatures found in the sea, among with algae and sea grasses. Yet, adults tend to incorporate a more animal daily diet, feeding themselves with bigger fish as well as with invertebrates.

Care to find more interesting as well as unusual facts about this species of turtles? For a more childish approach, try the link http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/education/kids_times_turtle_green.pdf which will for sure make you learn new interesting things as well as main characteristics of the Green Sea Turtles. For example, did you know that this species of turtles can live more than 100 years or that female turtles return to their natal beaches every 2-4 years to nest? Also, females only nest at night, on sandy beaches and under some… strict rules.

Female green sea turtles emerge from the seas, climb up on the beach and then go in search for the perfect nesting place. They then dig a small hole to deposit their 110-115 eggs and cover after the nest by sweeping sand over, just like a dog burries his bone. Unfortunately, only 5-10 eggs reach maturity and develop in future baby sea turtles.

Green Sea Turtles prefer coastal waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific from many reasons, from the average warm temperature which allows them to live in their natural climate, as well as for the yet undiscovered waters and beaches where they can nest peacefully. Also, they are constantly looking for quiet places which lack dangers and predators, including crabs and flocks of gulls, crocodiles or even birds and humans.

Green turtles are listed as an endangered species, while the Mediteranean sub-population is critically listed endangered. Despite all this, hunters still kill hundreds of sea turtles for their meat and eggs, contributing to threating even more the species as natural predators already do. Their numbers were also cut down by boat propeller accidents, fishnets which cause drowning.

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