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Features of sea turtles Sea turtles and land turtles are different in some inportant ways.A land turtle can pull its head inside its shell to hide from danger.A sea turtle cannot do this.When there is danger,a sea turtle swims away.A sea turtle has flipers for swimming.A land turtle has feet and claws for walking.Sea turtles are fast swimers of all the four-legged animals.Some sea turtles can swim 20 miles per hour.A sea turtle has flippers that are shaped like paddles.It swims by flapping its two front flippers like wings.The back flippers are used to help the sea turtle go left or right.The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle is about two feet long with a dark green-gray shell and skin.It is smaller than other sea turtles,usually weighing about 100 pounds.In comparision, the letherback sea turtle weighs about 100 pounds. Sea turtles need to breath air.Active turtles swim to the surface of the water often for a breath of air.They take oxigen from the air they breath.That helps them stay underwater for a long time.When it is time for a turtle to sleep,it sinks to the botum of the ocen.The water is colder there,so the turtle needs less oxigen to breath.Resting turtles stay underwater for up to two hours.Sea turtles can't chew food because they don't have teeth.But sea turtles have very strong jaws,and they use their jaws to crush fish and jeiiy fish are two of the their favorite foods.Sea turtles live in the ocean.