03/06/2026
This Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) was just chilling when we found him sitting next to the coral. I have more videos and pictures to come, but he just sat there and was shining and rubbing his shell against the coral. He let me take pictures for days. Green sea turtles are mostly herbivores and they eat sea grass. They migrate extremely long distances unlike all the other sea turtles. They are on the endangered list because people still hunt them for their shells, skin, and eggs. Green sea turtles have a short snout and their beak is unhooked. They have just two prefrontal scales between their eyes, unlike the other turtles that have four or five. Their carapace (shell) is composed of five central scutes down the middle and four pairs of lateral scutes on the sides.