sea turtles

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of sea turtle.
  sea turtle

  noun

  any of several large turtles of the families Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, having the limbs modified into paddlelike flippers: all sea turtles are either threatened or endangered through most of their range because of ocean pollution.

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sea turtles

The observed animals are olive ridley sea turtles, a small sea turtle species that can grow up to 100 pounds and 3 feet in length.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

There, locals take 4x4s to rest on pristine beaches where sea turtles nest and sheep graze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Staff are currently planning to build a special turtle rescue centre to care for any more sea turtles found cold-stunned around the Welsh coast.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

"Maybe my son will not even see sea turtles in the future," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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