feeding on sea grasses and algae. Juvenile green turtles, however, will also eat invertebrates like crabs, jellyfish, and sponges. While most sea turtles warm themselves by swimming close to the ...

New research from Padre Island National Seashore highlights the toll that ingesting plastic is taking on green sea turtles ... the animals’ health, diet and mortality, and has also kept the debris ...

a mainstay of the hawksbills’ diet. “Few other organisms will eat these sponges,” says José Urteaga, an expert in sea turtle conservation and the director of marine partnerships at Wild ...