…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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Old man s whiskers growing wild
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Remembering the Velvet Revolution
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A midsummer twilight s dream
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It s aboat time for the Barcolana
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Happy 300th, NOLA!
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Let s face it: It s World Emoji Day
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Summer winds down in the Southern Hemisphere
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Black Fell in England s Lake District
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Mount Sopris, Colorado
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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Siblings Day
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Shark Awareness Day
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A bull, some flowers, and a stratovolcano
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Welcome to my neck of the woods
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A Great view from above
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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World Rainforest Day
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So, how long till springtime?
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The mountaintop of toppled gods
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A bite of ancient history
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Norway s Kjeragbolten boulder
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Presidents Day
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How do ladybugs winter?
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SantaPark, Lapland, Finland
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World Photography Day
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Dancers perform ‘Revelations’
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The circular castle of Cornwall
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Reflecting on one of the world s strangest rivers
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Beethoven s 250th
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A night on the (ghost) town