Jellyfish have no brain, heart, bones or eyes. A group of jellyfish is called a ‘bloom’, ‘swarm’ or ‘smack’. Their bodies are made up of as much as 98 percent water! When they wash ashore, they can disappear after just a few hours as their bodies evaporate into the air.
Green sea turtles like to spend most of their lives underwater, where they can rest for up to five hours at a time before coming up to breathe. When feeding or travelling, however, they pop up to the surface every three to five minutes for a few seconds of air, before diving back down. Adult green turtles breed by the beaches where they were born. Females usually travel thousands of miles from their feeding grounds back to their ‘natal’ or ‘hatching’ beach every two to four years, where as males may make the journey annually. After mating in the shallow waters offshore, the female crawls onto the sandy beach, digs out a nest with her flippers and lays a clutch of about 115 eggs. She then covers the eggs with sand and returns to the sea.
Photos by Rebecca McCall
