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Scroll down for a downloadable PDF of this tutorial. In Disney's Finding Nemo, the turtle named Crush identified himself as being "a hundred and fifty, dude, and still young!" The oldest sea turtle on record lived to be 250 years old, and scientists think that some turtles could live much longer. Sea turtles are long-lived, scaly, shelled reptiles that live in the ocean. Marlin: "Well, you know what? If I ever meet a sea turtle, I'll ask him."- Disney's Finding Nemo (2003) Nemo: "How old are sea turtles? Sydney plankton from next door said that sea turtles, that they live to be about a hundred years old!"