{"id":3158,"date":"2014-11-10T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cgp.echoleaf.com\/sea_dog_blog\/sea-turtles\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T20:27:50","slug":"sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sea turtles are one of the Earth\u2019s most ancient creatures. The seven species found today have been around 110 million years, since the time of the dinosaurs. The sea turtle\u2019s shell or \u201ccarapace\u201d is streamlined for swimming through the water, but unlike other turtle\u2019s, sea turtle\u2019s cannot retract their legs and head into the shell. Sea turtle\u2019s do not have teeth, but their jaws have modified \u201cbeaks\u201d suited to their specific diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sea turtles have long fascinated people and have figured prominently in the mythology and folklore of many cultures. Regrettably, the spiritual significance has not prevented them from being exploited for both food and profit. At one time millions of sea turtle\u2019s roamed the earth\u2019s oceans, but now only a fraction remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-56c68f1d gb-headline-text\"><strong>Seagrass Beds<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seagrass beds are important feeding and breeding habitats for many marine species including sea turtles. Unfortunately, seagrass beds have been on the decline both in the Caribbean and the East Coast of the USA. They also tend to be relatively sensitive indicators of water quality and researchers are studying trends in seagrass abundance to determine the ongoing impact by humans. In addition to pollution, seagrass beds are extremely vulnerable to damage by boat propellers and anchors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea turtles are one of the Earth\u2019s most ancient creatures. The seven species found today have been around 110 million years, since the time of the dinosaurs. The sea turtle\u2019s shell or \u201ccarapace\u201d is streamlined for swimming through the water, but unlike other turtle\u2019s, sea turtle\u2019s cannot retract their legs and head into the shell. &#8230; <a title=\"Sea Turtles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/sea-turtles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sea Turtles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,28,24],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-ecology","tag-ecology","tag-sea-turtles","tag-underwater","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/JIM151-_JBS5834_0-a1e.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59539,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/59539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingguides.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}