; 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 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, newly hatched on a beach, will automatically move toward the ocean.

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.

Sea urchins possess both a water vascular system and a hemal system, the latter containing blood.

As the variation among parallel manuscript traditions that are exhibited by the Septuagint compared with the Masoretic text and which are embodied in the further variants among the Dead Sea Scrolls have demonstrated, even canonical Hebrew texts did not possess any single ' authorized ' manuscript tradition in the first centuries BC.

The Canoe Lifeguards train in local rivers and in the North Sea in order to attain various British Canoe Union awards and the SBS possess RIBs powered by outboard motors as well as small sailing craft to teach pupils boat handling and maintenance.

Sea urchins possess unique jaws which display 5-part symmetry, termed the " Aristotle's lantern ".

Both sides currently possess 6 nautical miles ( 11 km ) off their shores in the Aegean Sea.

The flow of fresh water into the sea from approximately two-hundred rivers and the introduction of salt from the South builds up a gradient of salinity in the Baltic Sea.

The Dead Sea (,,, " Sea of Salt ", also,, " The Sea of Death "), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.

People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets.

In Hebrew, the Dead Sea is, meaning " sea of salt " ( Genesis 14: 3 ).

The lake that occupied the Dead Sea Rift, named " Lake Sedom ", deposited beds of salt that eventually became thick.

Near Ein Gedi, salt builds up along the shores of the Dead Sea.

When the floor of the Dead Sea dropped further due to tectonic forces, the salt mounts of Lisan and Mount Sodom stayed in place as high cliffs.

The salt concentration of the Dead Sea fluctuates around 31. 5 %.

In times of flood, the salt content of the Dead Sea can drop from its usual 35 % to 30 % or lower.

View of salt evaporation pans on the Dead Sea, taken in 1989 from the Space Shuttle Columbia ( STS-28 ).

Both companies use extensive salt evaporation pans that have essentially diked the entire southern end of the Dead Sea for the purpose of producing carnallite, potassium magnesium chloride, which is then processed further to produce potassium chloride.

File: DeadSea3667. jpg | A rough Dead Sea, with salt deposits on cliffs

Halophiles can be found anywhere with a concentration of salt five times greater than the salt concentration of the ocean, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Owens Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and in evaporation ponds.

All other prefectures have coasts on the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Seto Inland Sea or have a body of salt water connected to them.

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the ( low salinity ) Baltic Sea ( where the Vasa was preserved ).

Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

The major geographical changes during this time period included the emergence of the Strait of Bosphorus and Skagerrak during glacial epochs, which respectively turned the Black Sea and Baltic Sea into fresh water, followed by their flooding ( and return to salt water ) by rising sea level ; the periodic filling of the English Channel, forming a land bridge between Britain and the European mainland ; the periodic closing of the Bering Strait, forming the land bridge between Asia and North America ; and the periodic flash flooding of Scablands of the American Northwest by glacial water.

He also founded the port of Ostia on the Tyrrhenian Sea and established Rome ’ s first salt works.

* Sea salt