; Sea turtles

Sea turtles possess glands near their eyes that produce salty tears that rid their body of excess salt taken in from the water they drink.

Sea turtles are almost entirely aquatic and have flippers instead of feet.

Sea turtles fly through the water, using the up-and-down motion of the front flippers to generate thrust ; the back feet are not used for propulsion, but may be used as rudders for steering.

Sea turtles lay their eggs on dry, sandy beaches.

Sea turtles also lay their eggs on ocean beaches.

Sea turtles have a carapace and plastron of bone and cartilage which is developed from their ribs.

Designated sections of the Jensen Sea Turtle Beach are barricaded off in order to protect the nests of the sea turtles.

Sea turtles ( superfamily Chelonioidea ) or marine turtles are marine reptiles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic.

Sea turtles are almost always submerged, and, therefore, have developed an anaerobic system of energy metabolism.

Sea turtles possess a salt excretory gland at the corner of the eye, in the nostrils, or in the tongue, depending on the species ; chelonian salt glands are found in the corner of the eyes in leatherback sea turtles.

Sea turtles and marine mammals ( West Indian Monk Seal and porpoise ) provided a very small portion of the meat in the Lucayan diet.

Category: Sea turtles

Sea turtles, sharks, moray eels, octopuses and sea snakes along with numerous species of fish such as tuna can commonly be observed.

The Cayman Islands Turtle Farm located in the West Bay district raises Green Sea Turtles for their meat and release into the wild. Green Sea Turtle in lagoon at Cayman Turtle Farm Through breeding, the farm produces upwards of 1800 turtles a year.

Sea turtles, however, are apparently unaffected by the sting and eat box jellies.

This social enterprise conducted ghost net recoveries and endangered Green Sea Turtle rescues of turtles wrapped in monofilament fishing line.

Sea turtles, already critically endangered, have been killed in large numbers in shrimp trawl nets.

Sea turtles can sometimes escape from the trawls.

Marine animals of the islands include dugongs ( an endangered species of sea mammal mostly found in New Guinean waters ), as well as Green, Hawksbill and Flatback Sea turtles.

On the quay at Glyfada is a rescue and rehabilitation centre for sea turtles, run by ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

Settling in their newly created towns and cities between the Caspian Sea and the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, they became literate and multi-lingual agriculturalists, manufacturers and international traders.

It operated as a department of SRC until 1974 when it was transferred to the Sea Ports Corporation, a newly established public enterprise set up to manage Sudan's marine ports.

They establish a new academy on the Asia Minor side of the Aegean Sea at the newly built town of Assus.

Godfrey Paine, who served in the newly created post of Fifth Sea Lord and Director of Naval Aviation, sat on the board and this high level representation from the Navy helped to improve matters.

According to the Aeneid, the survivors from the fallen city of Troy banded together under Aeneas, underwent a series of adventures around the Mediterranean Sea, including a stop at newly founded Carthage under the rule of Queen Dido, and eventually reached the Italian coast.

After the breakup of the USSR, the newly independent republics bordering the Caspian Sea claimed shares of territorial waters and the seabed, thus unilaterally abrogating the existing half-and-half USSR-Iran agreements which, like all other Soviet treaties, the republics had agreed to respect upon their independence.

The project involved the damming of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water using polders.

In 1896, the Dakhovsky Posad was renamed Sochi Posad ( after the name of local river ) and incorporated into the newly formed Black Sea Governorate.

Monmouth Beach is surrounded by other communities such as Sea Bright and Rumson, and the newly redeveloped Long Branch.

It belonged at the trading routes connecting central and northern Russia: first, from Moscow to the White Sea along the Onega River, and then, after 1765, along the newly built road between Saint-Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, which still exists and passes Kargopol and Plesetsk.

In the Book of Isaiah, they sometimes followed readings found in the newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls.

To cope with invasions from Goguryeo and Baekje, Silla deepened its relations with the Tang Dynasty, with her newly gained access to the Yellow Sea making direct contact with the Tang possible.

The newly confident Athenian fleet proceeded to win two more victories in the Hellespont in quick succession, the second being the dramatic rout at Cyzicus, which ended the immediate Spartan threat to Athens ' Black Sea lifeline.

Between 1835 and 1850 Benson divided the farmland into generous lots that were sold in the following decades as part of the newly created suburb of Bensonhurst by the Sea ( current day Bath Beach section ), which was annexed into the 30th Ward of Brooklyn in the 1890s.

The originator of the idea for Green is thought to be newly promoted Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Army Group B. Bock had operational command for the western flank under Operation Sea Lion.

The National Sea Life Centre has an extensive seahorse breeding programme, with many species of newly reared seahorses in tanks viewable by visitors.

Sherman later placed Slocum in command of the newly created Army of Georgia, composed of the XX Corps and the XIV Corps from the Army of the Cumberland, which served as the left wing in Sherman's March to the Sea and Carolinas Campaign.

Having learned from his first boat ’ s disaster, Bauer provided the Sea Devil with a newly invented rescue device: the diver ’ s chamber.

Yardley set sail from England on June 1, 1609, with the newly appointed Gates aboard the Sea Venture, the flagship of the ill-fated Third Supply expedition to Jamestown.

Ten years later Charles Gerhardt and Korngold's son, George, included 6: 53 minutes of The Sea Hawk score ( newly recorded ) in RCA's album The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

The newly formed route flowed through Berkshire and present day London before finally reaching the North Sea.

The newly independent nation of Georgia, which also hosted several bases of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet when it was the Georgian SSR, also claimed a share of the Fleet, including 32 naval vessels formerly stationed at Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti.