Interesting Facts about TURTLES ***

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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Turtles
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Turtles, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Turtles are as follows:

Fact 1 - Definition: An aquatic and land reptile, of the order Testudines, having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming. There are approximately 300 species of turtles.

Fact 2 - The top domed part of a turtle's shell is called the carapace and the bottom underlying part is called the plastron
Fact 3 - The largest is the Leatherback sea turtle which can reach up to 10 feet in length.
Fact 4 - The smallest turtle, the Speckled Padloper is 4 inches
Fact 5 - The top shell called the carapace consists of approximately 50 bones
Fact 6 - A group of turtles is called a bale
Fact 7 - They have a sharp beak for eating
Fact 8 - Only 1-2 out of 1.000 turtle hatchlings grow to adulthood
Fact 9 - Adult sea turtles can weigh from 150 – 1000 pounds
Fact 10 - The first known turtle existed 200,000,000 years ago
Fact 11 - Sea turtles can swim up to 35 mile per hour
Fact 12 - Almost all of the species of sea turtles are Endangered Species
Fact 13 - A division of reptiles, called chelonians, includes turtles, tortoises, and terrapins
Fact 14 - What is the Difference Between a Turtle and a Tortoise? Tortoises live entirely above water so do not have flippers.
Fact 15 - Turtles primarily live in water and therefore have webbed front feet or flipper-like fins to make swimming easier
Fact 16 - Turtles eat both plants and insects (omnivorous) whereas tortoises eat only plants and leaves and other vegetation (herbivorous)
Fact 17 - Types of Sea Turtles include the:
- Green Sea Turtle
- Leatherback Sea Turtle
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Hawksbill Sea Turtle
- Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
- Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
Fact 18 - Turtles can live from 50 to 80 years in the wild