During an arribada, females take over entire portions of beaches, lugging their big bodies through the sand with ... the smallest sea turtles, reaching only about 2 feet in shell length and ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical ... They dig a pit in the sand with their flippers, fill it with a clutch of 100 ...

I find a tangle of black seaweed on the sand ... shell. I grab more seaweed and uncover what I’ve been searching for: a Kemp’s ridley turtle, a member of the world’s most endangered species ...