Adult Life:
- Start to reproduce
- All sea turtles have similar basic nesting behaviors.
- Create nests and Lays eggs.
Egg Stage:
- All eggs start off at the "natal beach"
- The mother lays about 100 ping pong shaped, soft shelled, leathery eggs into a hole near the shore.
Life Cycle
The Logger Head Sea turtle
undergoes about five significant changes in things such as their color, size, etc. During it's life span of approximately 50 years.
Breaking Free:
Premature Adult:
Life Cycle Of a Loggerhead Sea turtle
- Journey around the North Atlantic basin.
- Young loggerheads that survive this incredible migration will return to the coastal waters.
- They are now in the nursery stage.
- Loggerheads have a greater list of known prey than any other sea turtle.
- This stage ends in about 20 years when the females reach sexual maturity at the age at about thirty-five years of age.
- While Incubation is occurring in the nest, the turtles sex is decided upon the temperature of the ground.
- hatch lings dig through the sand to the surface.
Hatch lings:
- Hatch lings enter the ocean.
- This is usually a hazardous.
- After hatch lings emerge from the nest, they begin a period of frenzied activity.