The magnificent leatherback turtle has my vote as the amazing animals of the earth.
Like the other remaining species of sea turtles, she left her four-legged land predecessors developed more than one hundred ten million years, fins and populated the Seven Seas Seven Seas --- before it. Literally on the seven seas.
Mother Earth was a very different place now as then.
Although people look around the world think, and that the rivers, ravines,and the mountains we see today has always been there, nothing could be further from the truth. For example, today mighty Himalayas, with its highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, which were not very powerful, if at all turtles first in the oceans. The reason? It still existed not at all so long ago. In fact, it should still pushed years 65000000, before the force of the collision between the Indian subcontinent and Asia, they in heaven.
Not only was there no screeningSeas but there were only two super-continents. The southern supercontinent is "Gondwana", which included present-day Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Arabia and India, and much more.
Antarctica was connected to Australia, when the first leatherback turtles to the sea and has not disconnect from it for about thirty million more generations of these marine animals.
South America remained in the vicinity of western Antarctica, which was in the temperate climate. Another 80000000Years would have by far to the south before Antarctica and find themselves wandering into the icy continent we are.
This old time, these ancient sea turtles produced.
When the ancestors of modern leatherback turtles evolved marine animals, there were no birds in the sky, no elephants, mastodons, mammoths, and not even a little mouse, because there are no birds or mammals at all over the globe.
For that matter, there were no dinosaurs, either. The mightyTyrannosaurus Rex no longer walk the earth about four hundred thousand centuries. Yes, you read correctly: 400,000 centuries.
Perhaps you know that is dolphins and whales from land animals and sea had left long ago. That is really impressive! Except in a sea turtle. Why? Because leatherback turtles in the world 's oceans swam for more than fifty million years before the mighty Leviathon --- which are developed in close connection with the hippopotamus --- left the country, and came up in the oceans.
Leatherback turtles are the largest of all sea turtles, and weighing nearly a ton, like the prisoners in Wales held the balance with 1980 pounds. These magnificent creatures saw the first and last dinosaurs, and lived through the world's extinction, and flourished as the planet went from two super-continents accentuate the seven that has a spectacular ability to adapt is not why she's amazing.
Consider this: the'World was astonished, and rightly so, at unbelievable speed, Michael Phelps' when he set a world record swim in the 200 meters freestyle event in Beijing. But at the time that it would lead to this distance, a huge leatherback go, weighing about as much as the entire offensive line of a professional football team, the 1000 meter pass mark --- More than one third of a mile to than Michael.
In fact, this sea turtle in 1992's Guinness Book listed the worldRecords as the fastest snake on earth!
It would be a fair race, when the world's fastest man to have a swimming turtle. The turtle and the man was still almost a hundred meter mark, and the human nose could be a victory. But would the swimming leatherback blow everyone runners at 400 meters and beyond.
Not only is this old than five times faster than the fastest man in the world has produced a swim, it can also in the world 'slargest long-distance swimmer. One of these giants has been traced by scientists of the migration 13,000 miles --- and that was only on the goal, it needs to return.
Apart from the fact that the world 'fastest reptiles and perhaps the world' s largest long-distance Migrator, dip it's the deepest sea turtles on the planet who appear regularly around 4,000 meters under water. To set the depth in perspective, America's extraordinary nuclear submarines are allowed, to a holdingnormal operating conditions, maximum depth of approximately 1,600 feet, because they would be destroyed under the sea pressure at 2400 meters. Man's best technology and strongest metal and composite materials is not just for the diving ability of these ancient reptiles.
Leatherback Turtles are not only found in tropical and subtropical waters on Earth, but were so far north of the Arctic Circle, as seen in Alaska, near Quebec, and Norway and as far south as the Cape of Good Hope even lower than New Zealand,Water as cold as 40 ° C. However, even though they are cold blooded reptiles, they stay warm and comfortable because they have a body temperature to 32 ° C (18 ° C) is higher than can keep the surrounding water. They do this by giving a metabolic rate four times faster than any other sea turtle, a unique internal system that actually generates heat through a very complicated mechanism, and their bulk and fat.
They invented the wetsuit in the late twentieth century. These "primitive"Animals have their own had a little more.
Shameful, in the past 30 years, humans have decimated rapacious greed and carelessness of the number of these beautiful creatures. Between 1980 and 2005, the number of leatherback turtles sea turtles in Mexico fell by 99%, a catastrophic decline in total since this country for about two thirds of the world's leatherback turtles.
Mexico should not be selected because all around the world were collapsing leatherback population. ForFor example, only a few years in front of 10,000 leatherback turtles nested in Malaysia every year. In 2008, there were two.
Today, more than a hundred countries, hundreds of conservation organizations, and provides tens of thousands of volunteers, is due to the decline of these magnificent creatures, but it remains very sensitive.
Despite laws passed to preserve these animals are regularly pillaged their nests for eggs. Untold numbers by the inclusion of plastic bags that look like jellyfish,their primary food. More drowning in commercial fishing and shrimp nets, which we euphemistically call "bycatch." We are destroying their habitat, build our houses on their beaches and wonder why the sea turtles go extinct.
Little Costa Rica has taken an active role in the conservation of marine turtles, apart from the world's largest green sea turtle nesting sanctuary in Tortuguero National Park and Conservation Ostional hut for the Earth's largestarribadas --- or olive oil, sea turtle nesting - where sometimes up to half a million turtles to their breeding grounds. Costa Rica eco-tourism is increasingly important, with its economic impact.
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