…it"s World Sea Turtle Day! The gentle giant seen here doing the wave was snapped mid-dive, headed to the seafloor near the Great Barrier Reef to munch some marine grass. The green sea turtle is among the larger of the seven sea turtle species, with some individuals reaching 5 feet in length and weighing 700 pounds. They live throughout the world"s subtropical waters, and like other sea turtles, they migrate long distances for food. Despite all that traveling, they return to hatch their eggs on the same select nesting beaches where they were born.
Put your flippers in the air…
Today in History
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Red-necked grebes during breeding season
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Celebrating Pi Day
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Rolling hills of the Palouse, Washington
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Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
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Cape Town at dusk
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US Coast Guard: Protecting us for 105 years
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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A glittering diamond in the rough
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Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
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Rosa Parks Day
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International Moon Day
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Here comes summer
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Art Basel Miami Beach
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Kings of the Kalahari
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It s Teacher Appreciation Week
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Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica
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It’s Siblings Day!
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The smoke before the bonfire
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Serra de Tramuntana, Majorca, Spain
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Black History Month
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Tolkien Reading Day
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Labor Day parade in 1915 Chicago
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Happy Halloween!
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A big birthday for Big Bend
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You won’t see this on Mulberry Street
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Ring of fire
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Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
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Victory in Europe, 75 years ago
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National Park Week: Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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Sandstone formations in the badlands near Caineville, Utah
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