https://wildlife.blog/tags/green-sea-turtle/Recent content in Green Sea Turtle on Wildlife.blogHugoen-ushttps://wildlife.blog/posts/sea-turtle-gal%C3%A1pagos-islands/https://wildlife.blog/posts/sea-turtle-gal%C3%A1pagos-islands/<p>📍 Galápagos Islands</p> <hr> <p><strong>Green Sea Turtle</strong> <em>(Chelonia mydas)</em></p> <p>The largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, named not for its shell but for the green colour of its body fat — tinted by an adult diet of seagrass and algae.</p> <p>Resident year-round in the Galápagos, where the archipelago&rsquo;s nutrient-rich upwelling supports one of the Eastern Pacific&rsquo;s most important nesting and foraging populations.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle">Wikipedia</a> | <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/28888-Chelonia-mydas">iNaturalist</a> | <a href="https://www.seaturtlestatus.org/species/green-turtle">SWOT Map</a></p>