ridleys
- plural of ridley.
Example Sentences
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All are Kemp’s ridleys, the world’s smallest sea turtles and the most endangered of the six species found in U.S. waters, the aquarium said in a news release Monday.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Of the 10 released last week, four were Kemp’s ridleys and six were green sea turtles.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020
Added Christine Figgener, a marine biologist at Texas A&M University: “We need a lot more answers to questions about how many olive ridleys are out there and what threats they are facing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
The chemical soup inside turtles comes from the food they eat, which varies from the crab-eating Kemp's ridleys, jellyfish-eating leatherbacks, omnivorous loggerheads, spongivorous hawksbills and herbivorous green sea turtles.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2013
Numerous endangered species of sea turtles, including Kemp ridleys, live almost entirely within the Gulf of Mexico, as does the bulbous West Indian manatee.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2010
