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Adult green sea turtles spend most of their time grazing in seagrass meadows.
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Green Turtle in Seagrass

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“I slowly approached this bird resting on the back of a turtle just under the surface of the water. I got the shot just before the tern flew away.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Nuno Sá.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Canon EOS 20D; 70-200mm lens
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Tern and Loggerhead Sea Turtle, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

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Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.
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Backbone of Biodiversity at Risk

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A hawksbill turtle in the waters of the Seychelles.
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Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

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the skull of a mosasaur
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A Mosasaur's Bite

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an olive ridley turtle comes ashore
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Olive Ridley

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Mushroom shaped mosasaur teeth
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Mosasaur Teeth

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a leatherback sea turtle with a tracker
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Leatherback with Tracker

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A spectacled caiman patrols a salty pond at a Smithsonian research station in Panama.
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Spectacled Caiman

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An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

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Unlike the other six species of marine turtle, the Australian flatback (Natator depressus) has a very limited distribution, found only from northern Australia to Papua New Guinea/Indonesia and it only breeds in Australia. Flatback turtles tend to spend mos
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Flatback Sea Turtle

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a diagram of heat flow in a turtle's flipper
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Counter-current Heat Exchange

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