Food

Green Sea Turtles are herbivores and eat algae, seagrasses, and seaweed.

Loggerhead Sea Turtles are carnivores and eat crabs, conchs, whelks, and horseshoe crabs.

Hawksbill Sea Turtles are referred to as spongivores and eat sponges.

Leatherback Sea Turtles are gelatinivores and eat jellies and other soft-bodied invertebrates like tunicates and sea squirts.

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles are carnivores and eat crabs, fish, jellies, shrimp, and mollusks.

Olive Ridley Sea Turtles are omnivores and eat crabs, shrimp, lobster, sea urchins, jellies, algae, and fish.

Flatback Sea Turtles are also omnivores and eat sea cucumbers, jellies, corals, shrimp, crabs, mollusks, fish, and seaweed.

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