What are the four salt-water reptiles?
The marine reptiles include the sea turtles, the sea snakes, the marine iguanas, and salt-water crocodiles. 8. Describe sea turtles, including their characteristics. Give at least two examples of sea turtles. Sea turtles have an armor-like shell or carapace that is fused to their backbone. Unlike land turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their legs into their shells. Their legs are modified into flippers for swimming. There are only seven species of sea turtles in the world: the green turtles, the hawksbill turtle, the leatherback, the Ridleys, and the loggerhead. 9. Describe sea turtle reproduction. All female sea turtles return to land to lay their eggs. Many migrate very long distances (up to 1360 miles) to return to the beach where they were born. They probably do not breed every year. They lay 100 to 200 eggs in a nest that they excavate in soft sand. The eggs hatch after 2 or so months and the baby sea turtles immediately crawl to the water and swim away. Not much is known about w
