How to Use olive ridley in a Sentence

olive ridley

noun
  • The olive ridley turtle named Meghan is released to the wild.
    — Margo Pierce, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2015
  • 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
  • Species include green, olive ridley and loggerhead sea turtles.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Both the olive ridleys and Kemp’s ridleys species of sea turtle are known for their arribadas, or mass nesting events.
    — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • As our boat cut through water, olive ridley turtles bobbed at the surface and manta rays leapt toward the sky, smacking their wings like a bellyflop gone right.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Female olive ridleys by the thousands congregate offshore, their forms silhouetted by the starry sky.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • India has some pretty successful efforts to protect the olive ridley sea turtle, a vulnerable species which nests on the country's long coastlines.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Only one out of every 1,000 olive ridleys is likely to ever reach maturity.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • 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 United States is home to six species of native sea turtles–green, hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and olive ridley.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • This area is one of just a few places on the planet to experience the arribada, when thousands of Kemp’s and olive ridley turtles simultaneously inch ashore to nest.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 16 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hospital officials say olive ridley turtles typically live in the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Conservationists thought olive ridleys had disappeared from this area decades ago, but in the early 2000s, a worker from an environmental charity stumbled onto a turtle egg shell nearby.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025

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