Sea Turtle Pictures

You can use this page with sea turtle pictures (the latin name for the superfamily sea turtles is Chelonioidea) to find some beautiful photos of different types of sea turtles.

You will find pictures of loggerhead sea turtles, green sea turtles, baby sea turtles, pictures of how volunteers try to relocate eggs of the endangered sea turtles and more.

Here on Clipartqueen you can also find a page about turtle facts, pet turtles and sea turtle facts, so it should be possible to find all you need for school projects here, or maybe you just want to know some more about turtles.
Check the links below on this page to find pages related to this one.

The sea turtle family (Family Cheloniidae):

Green sea turtle
Hawksbill sea turtle
Flatback sea turtle
Loggerhead sea turtle
Kemp's ridley sea turtle
Olive ridley sea turtle

Family Dermochelyidae
Leatherback sea turtle

Loggerhead Sea Turtles:

 

Sea turtles pictures	Sea turtle loggerhead
Female loggerhead heading towards ocean	Loggerhead female on beach at night
Loggerhead sea turtles	Baby sea turtles
Dead loggerhead eggs	Baby loggerhead heading towards ocean
Baby sea turtles	Hatchling sea turtle
Hand holding loggerhead turtle hatchling	Loggerhead baby near the ocean
Sea turtle eggs	Loggerhead sea turtles
Loggerheads nest with eggs	Nestbuilding loggerhead female
Baby sea turtles	Loggerhead sea turtles
Hatchlings of loggerhead sea turtle	Loggerhead heading towards the ocean
Loggerhead sea turtles	Baby sea turtles
Loggerheads nest with new eggs	Hatchling of loggerhead in hand

When the sea turtle wants to lay eggs, it waits for high tide so that the nest doesn't flood.

The sea turtle uses the hind legs to dig the nest hole. After digging, hormones bring the female into a trance-like state that helps it through the egg laying. It only lays 2-3 eggs at a time, but lays a total of about 100-200 during the night.

Afterwards the turtle gently covers the nest hole with sand, and the nest is eventually covered and camouflaged with a few strokes of sand from the hind legs.
After 60 days, the first young sea turtle breaks through the shell, and this activity sets the others in motion and after 12 hours the whole litter is hatched.
The hatchlings cannot see the sea, but instinctively they look for the light that gives off the shine from the sea surface.

But 30% of the hatchlings do not reach the edge of the reef. Even when they sprint across the sand to come to the sea, they are easy prey for seagulls and other birds.  And whey they reach the sea they have to swim really fast to escape the predatory fish, crabs, frigate birds and others. Only when they reach the edge of the reef they are in relative safety.

More sea turtle pictures:

Green sea turtle

 

Green sea turtle	Green sea turtle
Green sea turtle swimming	Green sea turtle nesting
Sea turtles pictures	Green sea turtle
Volunteer and green sea turtle	Green sea turtle
Green sea turtles	Green sea turtles
Green turtle in the ocean	Green sea turtle facing camera
Green sea turtles
Beautiful green sea turtle in blue water

Sea Turtle Pictures:

 

Sea turtles pictures	Sea turtles pictures
Swimming sea turtle	Sea turtle near corals and sand
Leatherback turtle	Leatherback turtle
Leatherback turtle close up	Leatherback turtle on the beach
Leatherback turtle	Kemp's Ridley sea turtle
Leatherback turtle walking on sand	Kemp's Ridley sea turtle
Sea turtle eggs in sand	Sea turtle eggs
Hawksbill sea turtle	Turtle pictures Hawksbill turtle

Picture of sea turtle

Endangered Sea Turtles:

Most of the sea turtle species are listed as vulnerable, threatened or endangered.

To help volunteers and conservationists collect the sea turtle eggs from threatened beaches and relocate them to safer beaches, fenced nurseries or protecting turtle farms.

Also a Turtle Excluder Device on shrimp nets can reduce the sea turtle by-catch.

Endangered sea turtles	Endangered sea turtles
Relocation of sea turtle eggs	Relocation of many sea turtle eggs
Endangered sea turtles	Endangered sea turtles
Sea turtle crawl for nesting	Sea turtle hatchery on beach

Where Would You Like to Go Next?

 

Pictures of Animals: Main page for all the pages with animal photos, take a look at the overview at this page.	Turtle Pictures: Here is where you find the turtle photo you are looking for, especially tortoise pictures.
Animal Clipart: the Main page for all the pages with animal clip art here, funny cartoons as well as cut-outs from photos.

 

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 Other great sites to visit if you want to find big pictures of sea turtles:

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_turtles