The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with ... They dig a pit in the sand with their flippers, fill it with a clutch of 100 to 200 eggs, cover the pit and return to the sea, leaving ...

Leatherbacks can dive to depths of 4,200 feet—deeper than any other turtle—and can stay down ... ritual involves excavating a hole in the sand, depositing around 80 eggs, filling the nest ...

She crouches down next to what looks like an imprint of angel wings in the sand. “This is where she covers them,” Shaver says. Shaver, who is chief of sea turtle science and recovery for the ...