Turtles
A turtle has flippers. A turtle swims with its flippers.
A turtle has a shell. Most shells are hard.
A turtle needs a hard shell as sharks feed on turtles.
Some turtles eat plants. Some turtles eat crabs.
The biggest turtle is the leatherback turtle. The leatherback turtle has a soft shell.
This leatherback turtle is as big as person.
A sea turtle lays eggs.
It swims to a beach and lays its eggs in the sand.
Photo by Steve Hillebrand of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Then the turtle leaves the eggs to hatch.
When the baby turtles hatch, they go into the sea.
The little turtles can swim in the sea.
Photo by Ryan Fura from the NPS is in the public domain.