How a sea turtle grow into an adult.
The femalesea turtle lays 50 - 200 eggs on the beach. After she lays the eggs the female covers the eggs up with sand and then she leaves them. About six weeks to hatch later the eggs will hatch while 20 % of egg layed never hatch.
Once the baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs there will be other species such as predators waiting to hunt them down such as crabs, birds,and rubbish. only 50% of babies sea turtle will never make it to the sea.
Finally the sea turtle reaches the sea and look for hiding places like seaweed. There are many dangers in the sea for sea turtles such as waves, whales, sharks, dolphins and sea birds for when they come up for air. 50% of babies that do make it into the sea, die from these animals and 0bjects.
Lastly the female turtle start breeding at age 20 although they can live for 80 years.Once a female turtle is ready to lay her eggs she crawls on to the beach and digs a hole in the sand so that she can lay her eggs there. Finally the sea turtle life cycle will start all over again.
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