📍 Galápagos Islands
Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
The largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, named not for its shell but for the green color of its body fat — tinted by an adult diet of seagrass and algae.
Resident year-round in the Galápagos, where the archipelago’s nutrient-rich upwelling supports one of the Eastern Pacific’s most important nesting and foraging populations.