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Saw this little guy while swimming off the island of Anguilla. I followed him around for a while He soon lost patients with me and split for deeper waters.
I recently found out that the term for an aggregation of turtles is a "bale". So this would be a bale of green sea turtles.
Youth Category - 2nd Place
Title of Photo: Painted Turtle
Subject: Painted Turtle
Photographer: Nicholas Eddy
turtles seem easier to care for than other pets, they require lots of time and money. www.pinterest.com/pin/531565562241139131/
Glyptemys insculpta
April, 2012. Northern Michigan.
A beautiful and large adult female found in a shallow rocky creek which feeds into a larger river in northern Michigan. This is the second Wood Turtle I've seen in the past two days utilizing this small creek adjacent to the larger river.
Scientific name: Clemmys muhlenbergii
Status: Threatened and Similarity of Appearance
Photo credit: USFWS
Bog turtles are darkly colored with a bright yellow, orange or red blotch on each side of the head.
Sea turtles are almost always submerged in water, and, therefore, have developed an anaerobic system of respiration. Although all sea turtles breathe air, under dire circumstances they may divert to anaerobic respiration for long periods of time. When surfacing to breathe, a sea turtle can quickly refill its lungs with a single explosive exhalation and rapid inhalation. Their large lungs have adapted to permit rapid exchange of oxygen and to avoid trapping gases during deep dives. However, turtles must emerge while breeding, given the extra level of activity.
This is Jack - he was a bad boy in his former yard - so we took him in. He may become our resident attack tortoise to guard our backyard.
These beautiful turtles are small as sea turtles go and make it to 1 meter in length and 175 pounds. They are listed as critically endangered, although there are spots like Buck Island Reef National Monument where their nests are carefully protected. I photographed this female after she had successfully nested. This species is deceivingly quick on land, and before I could do much she was in the water and out of reach!
Explore #281: Sea Turtle - I added a video clip of this guy to YouTube and got an astonishing 3000 views within 24 hours!
While snorkeling on our first day, just an hour or so after we arrived, we saw a sea turtle cruising around near the jetty.
I couldn't believe it at first, but as the week progressed i got used to looking down into the water just outside our bungalow and seeing awesome creatures - sea turtles (two lived in the area regularly), cuttlefish, barracuda, blacktip reef sharks, bamboo shark, blue-spotted fantail stingrays, a huge eagle ray, not too mention the various strata of fish schools, with the smallest fish congregating right by the beach in a foot of water, to the slightly bigger bait fish the circled endlessly in the hundreds under our bungalows, to the bigger preadtor fish (mostly small trevally) that hung out under the boat dock at the end ofthe jetty in about 15 feet of water.