How to Use olive ridley in a Sentence

olive ridley

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  • After the garbage was removed, olive ridley turtle hatchlings were spotted on the beach in 2018 for the first time in decades.
    — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 4 June 2017
  • Turkey, an olive ridley, belonged to one of the two most common sea turtle species found on the Oregon coast.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The group’s primary success has been with the olive ridley, which appears to be less affected by the trash, noise and bright lights of modern Bali.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • In 2015, an eight-minute clip of an olive ridley sea turtle with a plastic drinking straw stuck up its nostril went viral.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
  • The researchers then went to four Costa Rican beaches, where green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtles come ashore to make their nests.
    — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Five species of sea turtles are known to occur off the coast of Brazil: green sea turtles, olive ridley turtles, leatherbacks, hawksbills and loggerheads.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The team received tracking data for five other decoys, three of which had been hidden in olive ridley nests and two of which had been concealed in green turtle nests.
    — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The assignment was simply to go to Mexico and see the arribazon—the arrival of hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles, which were endangered at the time, lay their eggs on the beach.
    — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Thanks to their efforts, the olive ridley and eastern Pacific green sea turtles have made a major comeback, with now over 72 million turtles being born on the beaches that Wildcoast protects.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • According to National Geographic, olive ridley sea turtles are commonly found in warmer waters, and the reptiles can live to be 50 years old.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Three species of endangered sea turtles nest on the beaches of Todos Santos from October through March: the olive ridley, black, and critically endangered leatherback.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Female olive ridleys by the thousands congregate offshore, their forms silhouetted by the starry sky.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Species like green turtles and olive ridley sea turtles—classified as endangered and vulnerable, respectively—drag themselves up beaches and lay their eggs in the sand.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The two species Pheasey tracked, green sea turtles and olive ridley sea turtles, are classified as endangered and vulnerable, respectively.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The endangered olive ridley sea turtle, according to Times Now News, had to have his front left flipper and rear right flipper amputated after sustaining injuries in a fishing net incident.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • In a blog post detailing efforts to rehabilitate the olive ridley seat turtle, aquarium personnel say Turkey ate inconsistently over the month and a half personnel worked with her.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Hospital officials say olive ridley turtles typically live in the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019

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