The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Green sea turtles are rarely seen on the Grand Strand, ... Periodically, her fingers touched the turtle-shaped pendant on her necklace, which contained some of her husband's ashes.

Green sea turtles can grow to weigh 850 pounds. Green sea turtles can live from 30 - 50 years. ... which was once commonly used to make tortoiseshell jewelry," according to TPWD.