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Temperature inside the nest

Higher temperatures will produce females, while lower temperatures produce males. Temperatures around 85 degrees Fahrenheit will yield a mixed batch of male and female hatchlings.

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What determines the gender of leatherback sea turtle hatchlings?

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The leatherback sea turtle has spent over 100 million years living beneath the ocean's waves. It is the longest surviving and one of the largest reptiles on earth. With a heritage that goes back to the dinosaur era, the leatherback sea turtle's impressive list of accomplishments is virtually unmatched.

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Magnificent, beautiful creatures. And it's the same old story - they've managed to survive more than a million years, and yet because we don't care (how else to explain it) we're blissfully making sure that we wipe them out. I'm thinking that without much effort we might wipe out most species of land and sea mammal in the next 100 years. What an accomplishment.....

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Miles McIntosh

Good grief! How can an animal species have been on the earth longer than the earth has existed! The earth is no were even close to even being 100,000 years old!

Erin Michaela Arsenault-Arnaud

PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE oh thats right they teach you christians how to be stupid instead of smart. a little REAL research should open your brain. look for YOURSELF, your standing on it.

Hope they not will be extinct by the Chinese, when sea turtles come to China to lay their eggs, comes kinerne to catch them, they turn through the shell with huge screws when they are still alive, this people eat them, it is so so inhumanly cruel what these folks are able to do, they eat the earth clean for many animals, it's so wrong. This I have seen on TV a long time ago, it was so awful, I cried.
Let's hope PETA will intervene to stop the cruel Chines, so the sea turtles can survive.

Etienne Saint

Det gule folkeslaget eter jorden reint for alt som kan krype å gå, sadister :(

I wonder what the turtle thinks about being his age. Does he feel a bit sad when no asks for his I. D. At the liquor store

Save this wonderful awesome animals! PLEASE!

Liliane Lulu Giger

Diese Tiere leben schon millionen von Jahren auf unserem Planeten- lange bevor wir da waren. (¯`❤SAVE THE TURTLES❤´¯)

very beautiful! Nature is wise.

WHAT THE HELL I MAN DOING TO THIS PLANET.ALL THEY KNOW IS TO KILL, DESTROY AND MAME.

Bless these sweet creatures of the sea!

They are so pretty.

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