r/TurtleFacts

: "Diego the tortoise"

: "Leatherbacks and hawkbill turtles feed on jellyfish and keep their populations in check. Plastic looks like jellyfish when it's floating in the water and that's why so many turtles die from ingesting plastic."

: "Sea turtles can carry more than 100,000 tiny animals on their shells"

: "[FACT] Baby Turtles are the cutest thing ever."

: "Trump has cancelled protections for sea turtles! :-( The Trump administration tossed out a rule on marine protection for whales and sea turtles caught in fishing nets off the West Coast, despite the fact that the fishing industry proposed the measures in the first place. Sad!"

: "Turtles can “breathe” through their butts. Some turtles can diffuse oxygen in and carbon dioxide out by expanding and contracting their cloaca in water."

: "Turtles are not ninja"

: "The Trump administration is planning to allow companies to use seismic air guns that can disturb, injure or even kill whales, sea turtles, and other marine life in order to find oil and gas formations in the Atlantic Ocean floor. Obama had blocked this method of surveying due to the risks involved."

: "While most turtles do not tolerate the cold well, the Blanding's turtle has been observed swimming under the ice in the Great Lakes region."

: "About 70,000 loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings made it to the water in North Carolina this year! The species is threatened. In order to be taken off the threatened list, sea turtles must regularly dig 2,000 nests in North Carolina, 2,000 nests in Georgia, and 9,200 in South Carolina."