Can they still have babies at a hundred years old? I don't know why not. H, if they can reach that age, they can reproduce. How many eggs do they lay in a clutch every year? Each species is different, but if we keep talking about green sthat tends to be my focus,. They're about a hundred eggs per clutch. And how many will survive in two adults? There's turtles at least six years old still pumping it out. Gosh, i'd love that. She's just probably out there right now, like the size of a volse wagon beetle or whatever.
Hope you dug tortoises because we’re back, shellin’ out the good stuff, with this week’s encore of sea turtles, so get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?
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