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Anatomy of the Green Sea Turtle | |||
| The Green sea turtle has a small and blunt head with a serrated jaw. The body is nearly oval and a beaked head at the end of a short neck. The arms are paddle-like flippers that are adapted for swimming. On each flipper there's 1 visible claw. . |  | ||
 | The carapace color varies from pale to very dark green and plain to very brilliant yellow, brown and green tones with radiating stripes. The plastron varies from dark grey-bluish-green in the Pacific populations to white, dirty white or yellowish in the Atlantic populations. | ||
| The adults are 75-90 cm in carapace length with an average weight around 200 kg. There have been caught Green sea turtles that have reached weights up to 310 kg. The largest green turtle ever found was 152 cm in length and 395 kg. | |||
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