The green sea turtle can dive for five hours. Loggerheads have jaws adapted for crushing and grinding. They eat crabs, snails, shrimps and marine plants. They come ashore to build nests for their eggs on the sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. Many loggerheads are caught and drowned in the nets of shrimp fishermen.
Loggerheads migrate to warmer, more tropical waters in the winter months.
Adults can weigh 100 to 200 pounds. Sea turtles may easily live to be over 50 years old. All seven species of sea turtles are on the endangered species list. It is illegal to harm any sea turtle. There are fewer than 100,000 adult female loggerhead turtles in the world.