SAN DIEGO Solstice, Lightning and Tucker, three endangered olive ridley turtles who have spent at least a year at SeaWorld in rehabilitation pools were released Monday, Sept. 11 off the San Diego ...

Though now considered the most abundant sea turtle, the olive ridley — 2 to 2½ feet long and weighing 80 to 110 pounds -- is still listed as “in threat of extinction” in Mexico.

Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell length. The olive ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller ...

The Olive Ridley, like all other sea turtle species except the herbivorous Green Turtle, is an omnivore, eating jellyfish, snails, crabs, prawns, algae, and small fish.

Kemp’s ridley, olive ridley, loggerhead and hawksbill sea turtles are omnivorous their entire life, eating a wide variety of both plants and animal life. Seagrasses, seaweed, sponges, mollusks ...

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle ready to move. Dr Argilla feeds Olive Ridley. ... “Ridley has been swimming, eating, and even showing her stroppy side over the last week,” said Dr Argilla.

Mexican poachers bludgeoned and chopped some 80 protected Olive Ridley sea turtles to death for their eggs. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Many of the turtles had been entangled in fishing lines. From October to March, thousands of Olive Ridleys come ashore from the deep sea to lay their eggs. "The Olive Ridley turtles play a crucial ...

Adopt Harry, Azura, Xena or another sea turtle. At the Olive Ridley Project’s Adopt a Turtle Patient website, pick the turtle that you’d like to symbolically adopt and make a donation of a ...