Five Facts about the Sea Turtle

35th edition of Marine Life monthly post. Marine Life post published every 19th of the month. It aims to share information about the marine life species and to promote their conservation. All images and videos in this post are taken by Indah Susanti unless stated otherwise.

It’s always delightful to see the sea turtles during my scuba diving trip. The above video was taken in Apo Island (the Philippines). The sea turtle is a marine reptile, a reptile that has adapted for aquatic life in a marine environment (source). Adaptation, evolution, the fact is the sea turtles have existed since the prehistoric era. The world’s oldest sea turtle fossil showed the age of 120 million years (in the year 2015’s report). Let me share some of their facts, perhaps you have already known but I do hope you still enjoy their images in this post…