Turtles
Sea turtles have flippers. They use their flippers to swim.
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All sea turtles have shells. Most turtles' shells are hard.
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They need hard shells because sharks like to eat turtles.
There are different sorts of sea turtles.
Loggerhead turtles eat crabs and jellyfish.
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Green sea turtles eat plants.
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The biggest sea turtle is the leatherback turtle. It can grow as heavy as 2 horses! The leatherback turtle is the only sea turtle with a soft shell. It feels like leather.
This leatherback turtle is as big as person.
Sea turtles are reptiles. Reptiles lay eggs. Sea turtles go onto beaches to lay their eggs in the sand.
Then the turtles leave the eggs to hatch.
By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region - Leatherbacks crawling to the sea. Tinglares arrastrandose hasta el mar. Licensed under CC BY 2.0
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When the baby turtles hatch, they crawl into the sea.
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