These beautifully colored sea turtles got their name because their oversized head sort of looks like a big log.Within their heads are powerful jaws, which loggerheads use for crushing prey like conchs, horseshoe crabs, and other animals with hard shells. They also eat softer foods like jellyfish, fish, seaweed, and a brown algae called sargassum.
Loggerheads live in oceans all over the world, except in the coldest seas. There are more loggerheads in the waters of the United States than any other species of sea turtle. Even so, loggerheads are threatened by many things, including predators, pollution, human development in the turtles' nesting areas, and fishing nets.
