Informative Speech On Giant Sea Turtle

Spain had to call in a crane to move a giant sea turtle

What do you do when you see a giant dead sea turtle being hauled up a crane and put into the back of a truck? Take a video and learn more about the incident of course!

The dead giant sea turtle

Earlier this week a dead giant sea turtle washed up on the beach in Calella, Spain. The turtle is actually a leatherback turtle. They’re the largest of all of the turtles, and are one of the deepest-diving reptiles. Leatherback turtles can grow up to seven feet in length, and weigh up to nearly 2,000 pounds. This turtle was seven feet long, and about 440 pounds.

Watch the turtle being hoisted by the crane:

What happened to the turtle

Currently, it is unknown how the turtle died. The body of the turtle is being taken to the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) for an autopsy. Hopefully then we’ll learn

Some people are like that too. #photography #nature #turtles pic.twitter.com/49JCAKYQnq— Elaine K. Alquist (@ElaineKAlquist) September 24, 2017

Leatherback turtles turning up dead

It’s incredibly odd that leatherback turtles are turning up dead on beaches in the UK and Spain because these turtles are usually found in South America, in tropical and subtropical waters, neither of which the UK or Spain have. In fact, in the past 2,000 years only about 10 have been spotted in the Mediterranean. These turtles are considered a vulnerable species.

What is killing these leatherback turtles?

The leatherback turtle has no real predators. Sometimes an orca or a great white shark might catch one, but usually they’re left alone. This is another reason why so many washing up dead on beaches is troubling. The most obvious cause is pollution and plastic that’s dumped into the oceans that the turtles mistake for food. Hopefully, the autopsy of this current dead leatherback turtle will give scientists some