BY: Declan Coates

Tortoises are a type of turtle that live there whole life on land. Sadly some animals eat baby tortoises, for example raccoons and foxes eat baby tortoises. To add on the speckled tortoise grows to four inches long. On the other hand other turtles are big.

Box turtles live mostly live in Mexico. They will eat fruits, veggies and a lot of worms. Box turtles can protect them self and hide in their shell! To add on, Box turtles can live up to 100 years.

Sea turtles live their whole life in the ocean. They mostly eat crab, shrimp and fish. To add there are 7 different species that exist. The Leather Back Sea Turtle can grow to 8 feet long!

 Habitat: Australia and the U.S  Food: Fish, insects, nuts, seeds, snails, water, plants, worms, frogs, salamanders, and other turtles!  Fact: Snapping turtles have very strong jaws.  Another fact: Turtles were around when Dinosaurs where!

 There are some turtles that are cartoony for example Yertle The Turtle. Published April 12 th It sold over 1,ooo,ooo ( one million) copies. Yertle is the king of the pond, he wants to be higher than the moon. Yertle stacked all the turtles and then went to the top of the stack of turtles. Then the bottom turtle burped and Yertle fell down into the mud.