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Endangered
Ocean
Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas
Grazing on seagrass meadows across tropical seas, the green sea turtle returns across whole oceans to nest on the very beach where it hatched.
Habitat
Ocean
Diet
Herbivore
Native to
Great Barrier Reef
Fun fact
Females can travel more than 2,500 kilometres back to their birth beach to lay eggs.
