The team walked back and forth throughout the night, counting 878 turtles. As hundreds of birds flew overhead, the two men ducked, dodging shadows of the birds cast on the sand by the bright moon above. In about eight weeks, the eggs would hatch and the baby turtles would scramble across the beach, barely escaping the birds. They would dive into the huge ocean waves, barely escaping the fishes and sharks, hungry for a meal. Green sea turtles can grow to weigh more than 800 pounds.
Sea turtles weep large tears to wash out sand and to get rid of extra salt in their body.
Sea turtles live in warm waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas.