The life cycle of a sea turtle

What reptile can live over 100 years of age and has been around since the dinosaurs that still lives now? If you thought it was sea turtles your right. Did you know that sea turtles can’t pull their head into their shell. There are four main stages of a sea turtle's life cycle. The egg stage, the baby sea turtle stage, the growing up stage and the adulthood stage but you are about to read the egg stage.

Eggs
A female sea turtle swims to the beach that they were born and digs a deep hole, lays her eggs in it and covers the hole. Then the eggs face their first challenge, the eggs stay in that hole for usually six months until 80% of them hatch. Sea turtle eggs are the same size and colour of a ping pong ball but rather quite leathery.

Baby sea turtles
Once the 80% of baby sea turtles hatch from their egg, they will need to face their next challenge getting out of the hole alive. Then the surviving ones that managed to wriggle their way out of the hole are usually the size of the palm of your hand and have
to face their third challenge, a really hard challenge which most baby sea turtles do not survive, they need to squirm to the surface as fast as they can as well as dodging seagulls and crabs.

Growing up
The baby sea turtles who made it to the water swim in groups underneath piles of seaweed facing a very tiring challenge with small predators like large reef fish, which most sea turtles in their third stage get too tired and can’t catch up to the others then they sadly fall back and that usually leaves four sea turtles alive.

Adulthood
The four adult sea turtles now at this stage usually decide to have their own lives and live by themselves in the deep, now their predators like some of the large sharks and the killer whale. The female sea turtle breeding age is usually the age of 20 the beach they go to is the same beach that they were born on to breed.

I think others should think about how a sea turtle has it’s challenging life. So I believe sea turtles are a miracle.