Turtles in example sentence

Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea.

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Sylvia's wish provides us with that leverage, that access to the heart of human beings, you might say, who have rarely seen places beyond their own toes, but are now hopefully going to become interested in the full life-cycle of creatures like these sea turtles, who indeed spend most of their time in the high seas.

But what we also know is that species like these sea turtles do not stay put in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.

And it was the custom of those flaneurs to show they were men of leisure by taking turtles for walks and letting the reptile set the pace.

A budding young naturalist who loved turtles, he immediately settled on the Galapagos.

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