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How do turtles see?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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14y ago

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They do not. They have to come up for air.
They don't breathe under water, they are air breathing reptiles that can hold their breath, for very long periods of time up to 5 hours is common a loggerhead turtle was recently recorded to have stayed under water for 10 hours.

how long can they hold their breath? THATS AMAZING! HOW DO THEY DO THAT?!?!?!?!

Turtles do not breath under-water, they must come to the surface to get air.

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15y ago

there is this special thing in their eyes that is shaped like a sphere, because it is better for seeing underwater. the special thing for humans is shaped like a football, because it is better for seeing through the air. no that is not true! THEY can see under water and their eyes aren't circles,who ever wrote this!I'm going to get you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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13y ago

Although green sea turtles live most of their lives in the ocean, adult females must return to land in order to lay their eggs. Biologists believe that nesting female turtles return to the same beach where they were born. This beach is referred to as a natal beach. Often sea turtles must travel long distances from their feeding grounds to their natal beach. Just how sea turtles find their natal beaches is not known. Hawaii's green sea turtles migrate as far as 800 miles from their feeding areas along the coasts of the main Hawaiian islands to their nesting beaches in the Northwestern Hawaiian islands. Males accompany the females during the migration, which usually occurs in the late spring, and mate with them off the shores of the nesting beaches. The most popular nesting beaches are on French Frigate Shoals, where an estimated 90% of the Hawaiian population of green sea turtles mate and lay their eggs. Females do not mate every year, but when they do, they come ashore often- as many as five times every 15 days to make nests in the sand and lay eggs.

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15y ago

Their eyes aren't like ours, they have developed eyes that can see underwater.

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14y ago

Turtles have eyes on the side of their head, its almost like a horse they cannot see directly in front but if u stand off the the side of them they can see u

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11y ago

They have a jelly like layer on their eyes which make them see better like we have goggles to see

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