The courtship ritual begins with the males surrounding the females in an open sea mating ground and then the males come close and bite a female's neck and if she accepts, they they mate; if it does not accept, it swims to the bottom of the mating sites (Deurmit L 2007). Males have long claws to use during mating because other males try to remove the mated male to mate with the female (Deurmit L 2007). Caretta carettas are polygandrous and breed seasonally in early summer (Deurmit L 2007). With mating, females have the ability to store sperm throughout the breeding season (Sakaoka K et al.). This trait developed with “changes in the sperm storage tubules (SSTs) in the oviduct” and allows females to reproduce more (Sakaoka K et al.). This storage helps fight climate change because Caretta caretta, as a species, only reproduces at certain temperatures (Sakaoka K et al.). Female loggerhead turtles have developed sperm storage capabilities during mating to combat the climate