Garter snakes occupy a great variety of habitats but are never far from water, feeding mainly on salamanders, earthworms, frogs, and small fish. Authorities differ on the number of species; between 12 and 22 are recognized.
Sea Turtles are found in all of the worldâs oceans, with exception of the arctic. There are seven species of Sea Turtle, and six of these arrive to lay eggs each year on beaches across Mexico. Although Sea Turtles live most of their lives at sea (and mate at sea) the females must return to land to lay their eggs.ea Turtle Conservation Projects in Mexico. Mexico runs a number of key conservation projects, whereby marine biologists and government agencies work in unison to protect Sea Turtles â an endangered species world-wide â from natural predators and unscrupulous humans.
The leatherback turtle is a species with a cosmopolitan global range. Of all the extant sea turtle species, D. coriacea has the widest distribution, reaching as far north as Alaska and Norway and as far south as Cape Agulhas in Africa and the southernmost tip of New Zealand.laws are absent from both pairs of flippers. The leatherback's flippers are the largest in proportion to its body among extant sea turtles. Leatherback's front flippers can grow up to 2.7 m (8.9 ft) in large specimens, the largest flippers (even in comparison to its body) of any sea turtle.