…it"s World Sea Turtle Day! The gentle giant seen here doing the wave was snapped mid-dive, headed to the seafloor near the Great Barrier Reef to munch some marine grass. The green sea turtle is among the larger of the seven sea turtle species, with some individuals reaching 5 feet in length and weighing 700 pounds. They live throughout the world"s subtropical waters, and like other sea turtles, they migrate long distances for food. Despite all that traveling, they return to hatch their eggs on the same select nesting beaches where they were born.
Put your flippers in the air…
Today in History
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia
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Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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Church of Notre Dame de Bon-Port, Les Sables-dOlonne, France
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1934 Labor Day parade, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Sedona, Arizona
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Independence Day
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Red fox in the Netherlands
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Arctic fox in Norway
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It’s Art Deco Weekend in Miami
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An inland ocean
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington
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The smoke before the bonfire
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Crescent-tail bigeye fish, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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World Bee Day
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Coming home to roost
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Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington
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Manarola, Cinque Terre National Park, Liguria, Italy
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World Bee Day
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Wallabies at sunrise, Australia
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Bay Marker Lookout, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
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Lake Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
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The town of Pienza in Tuscany, Italy
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Aspens in the White River National Forest, Colorado
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Groundhog Day arrives—beyond a shadow of a doubt
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Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Village of Oia in Santorini, Greece
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Looking down on the Otter
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Christmas lights in Domaso, Lake Como, Italy
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