Loggerhead sea turtles breathe with lungs. Unlike fish that use gills to extract oxygen from water, sea turtles must surface to inhale air through their lungs. They can hold their breath for extended periods while diving, but they need to come up for air regularly.
Turtles have lungs - not gills. They breathe just fine in air, on land.
No, sea turtles have lungs that can quickly refill when they come up to breathe on the surface of the water. Green and Loggerhead turtles can hold their breath for about 4 to 5 minutes during a routine activity. But Loggerheads are known for longer dives.
through their lungs they don't have gills at all
Turtles don't breathe under water. They've got lungs - not gills. They hold their breath when they dive.
Turtles don't breathe under water. They've got lungs - not gills. They hold their breath when they dive.
they breathe with gills
gills.
Turtles have lungs, not gills. They don't breathe underwater. When they dive, they hold their breath.
All turtles have lungs - not gills. They hold their breath when they dive.
A amphibian has neither lungs or gills
No, they have gills.Sharks do not breathe with lungs, but with gills that absorb the oxygen in the water.
This is actually a hard question to answer. Because Turtles can actually diffuse oxygen from the water with what is commonly referred to as Bum Gills. They aren't actually gills, but have the similar function.