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Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| There are seven worldwide species of sea turtle, with six of those found in the United States. Sea turtles are protected under the Endangered Species Act, due to threats from marine debris, bycatch, destruction of their habitat and boat strikes. PHOTOS: Lost Years Of Sea Turtles Uncovered 
  
 At the Miami Seaquarium, kids get a chance to touch one of two loggerhead sea turtles that are prepared to be released back into the wild at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park after undergoing rehabilitation. NEWS: Huge North Sea Plankton Bloom Seen From Space 
  
 Members of the Kuwait Environment Protection Society get ready to release a green sea turtle. The turtle, 45 years old and weighing 150 kilograms, was rescued from a fishing trap and released after undergoing medical attention. A tracking device was fixed on the turtle's back in order to help study the animal's movement in territorial waters. PHOTOS: Life On The Ocean Floor Garbage Patch 
  
 This map shows the Hawksbill turtles' migration range. The turtles are capable of traveling hundreds to thousands of miles between nesting beaches and foraging areas, which are comparable to migrations of green and loggerhead turtles. NEWS: Strange, Carnivorous Sponge Found In Deep Sea 
  
 Although sea turtles live most of their lives in the ocean, adult females must return to beaches to lay their eggs. PHOTOS: Life in Australia's Great Barrier Reef 
  
 Once they hit the water, hatchlings must swim quickly to escape near-shore predators. And curious humans. VIDEO: Octopi Have a Brain in Every Tentacle 
  
 A loggerhead turtle hatchling races for the Mediterranean Sea after leaving a protected hatchery in Mikhmoret, north of Netanya, Israel. PHOTOS: Sharks, Marine Mammals Hang in Paradise 
  
 Every morning during the nesting season for green and loggerhead turtles, ecologists from Israel's Nature and Parks Authority search the Mediterranean coastline for nests. They empty the nests and transplant the fragile eggs to protected hatcheries along the coast. Two months later, removed from man-made obstacles and protected from their natural predators -- crabs, foxes and birds -- the hatchlings enter the sea. Some will return more than 20 years later to the same beach and lay their eggs. PHOTOS: The Surprising World of Sea Squirts 
  
 Sea Turtle Week is June 16-20, but, hey, you already knew that. To celebrate these wide-ranging swimmers, we take a look at their journey from beach to sea -- and back again. Green turtles (above) are the largest of the hard-shell sea turtles, despite having a small head, and can weigh up to 350 pounds (135-160 kilograms). They can grow to 3 feet in length. 30 Days Of The Ocean: Photos 
  
 A newly discovered 240-million-year-old turtle suggests that turtles are more closely related to snakes than anyone ever thought, and it also reveals how turtles first evolved their shells. 
  
 "Grandfather turtle," as it has been named, could help to solve longstanding debates about the amazing family tree of all turtles. One theory is that turtles are living dinosaurs, as birds are, but this study, published in Nature, concludes that turtles are more closely related to lizards and snakes. 
  
 While it's hard to imagine a slow and hefty turtle slithering on the ground, senior author Hans-Dieter Sues points out, "Snakes are just a large group of legless lizards." 
  
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 He added that the ancestor that gave rise to turtles would have been "a small, superficially lizard-like reptile with expanded trunk ribs." 
  
 Sues and colleague Rainer Schoch analyzed the remains of Grandfather turtle (Pappochelys rosinae), which were found at Schumann quarry in Germany. Based on the anatomy, they do classify turtles as being a "diapsid," a group that includes dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, other extinct species, crocodiles, lizards, snakes and the tuatara, which is a lizard-like reptile. 
  
 Sues and Schoch, however, believe that turtles are far more related to lizards and snakes than they are to the other major diapsid lineage, which includes dinosaurs and birds. 
  
 Eight-inch-long Grandfather turtle did not have a shell, but it certainly had the makings of one, given its broad "T"-shaped ribs and a hard wall of bones along its belly. 
  
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 "This configuration of the ribs would have immobilized them and led to the development of a novel way of breathing in turtles," Sues said. "Modern developmental studies indicate that the turtle shell formed from bony outgrowths of the vertebrae and ribs." 
  
 As for why this happened, the researchers theorize that the turtle shell may have originally developed in water-dwelling reptiles. 
  
 "Its main role would have been all-around protection of the vital organs," Sues said, adding that the shell initially might have also "helped with buoyancy control by making the animal heavier." |||||

For at least a century, scientists have puzzled over the turtle. Thanks to a gap in the fossil record between 260 million and 220 million years ago, it's unclear how the turtle got its shell and to whom it's most closely related. Now a fossil from 240 million years ago, found at a quarry in Germany, fills in some missing links—including that turtles appear more closely related to snakes and lizards than crocodiles and birds, researchers report in the journal Nature. Dubbed "grandfather turtle," the remains of Pappochelys rosinae reveal a shell-less 8-inch reptile whose tail accounted for half its total length, reports Discovery. P. rosinae did have the makings of a shell, with T-shaped ribs and hard webbing along its belly. (Full shells didn't appear until around 214 million years ago, reports Discover, perhaps when the turtle's ancestors were water-dwelling and needed to protect their major organs as well as control buoyancy.) The grandfather turtle's skull also resembles snake and lizard skulls more than archosaurs, a group that includes crocodiles and birds. But the mystery persists: In spite of this latest anatomical evidence, one researcher admits that "molecular data places turtles closer to crocodylians and birds." (This turtle is near extinction.)