In fact, scientists think that turtles originally got their shells for digging, likely more than 200 million years ago. Wojakowski: They dig, like, really, really complex burrowing structures ...

The West Pacific population has fewer than a thousand females. A flatback sea turtle kicks up sand while digging a nest on Crab Island, off Australia’s northeast coast. Indigenous rangers with ...

Green turtles, like other sea turtles ... to lay their eggs. They dig a pit in the sand with their flippers, fill it with a clutch of 100 to 200 eggs, cover the pit and return to the sea, leaving ...

This is when green turtles nest in synchrony, with females returning to the same beach where they were born. While on land, females dig deep nests and lay around 128 eggs per clutch. Once the ...

Freshwater turtles eat insects and aquatic larvae, crustaceans and aquatic vegetation. Most Asian turtles and tortoises dig themselves nests in mud or sand to lay their eggs. The hatchlings are born ...

In Turtle Beach, a documentary from The Nature ... the sand until the “ceiling” collapses on top of them. They then dig themselves out, have a rest, and try again. Over several hours, they ...