1.Loggerhead Sea Turtles’ carapace, or shell that can grow to be about 2.5 feet to 3.5 feet.
2.Fully grown Loggerheads weigh between 115 pound to 375 pounds (70 to 170 kilograms)
3.Loggerhead Sea Turtles are primarily carnivores. They usually eat mostly shellfish, but also eat horseshoe crabs, clams, mussels, crabs, and other types of invertebrates.
4.Loggerhead sea turtles nest in intervals for every two to four years. They lay eggs in about three to six seasons of nesting. They lay these eggs about twelve to fourteen days apart each time and lays, on average, 100 to 126 eggs in each nest. The loggerhead eggs incubate for about sixty days.
5.The main causes for the loggerhead infant endangerment is lights on the coast attracting the newly hatched turtles into the city. And for matured loggerheads, abandoned or active fishing nets are a threat to these sea turtles.
6.Loggerhead Sea Turtles have a lifespan of more than 50 years.
7.Loggerheads can swim at an average speed of 15 miles or 24 kilometers per hour.
8.The entire population of Loggerheads is unknown, but the amount of nests that are found are decreasing from previous years. Studies in Australia think that there is more than 60,000 nesting females.
9.Loggerhead Sea Turtles have massive heads, hence their name, strong and powerful jaws, and reddish-brown carapace, or shell. Adult male Loggerheads have long tails extending from their rear.
10.The largest Loggerhead Sea Turtles that have been found weighed more than 1000 pounds or 454 kilograms.