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sea turtle

noun

  1. 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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sea turtle1

First recorded in 1670–80
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The Kemp's ridley sea turtle is now fighting fit, and Anglesey Sea Zoo said Rhossi was ready to be released back into the wild off the coast of the US.

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In an emotional reunion with his brother in Paita, near the Ecuadorian border, on Friday, he described how he had eaten roaches and birds before resorting to sea turtles.

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Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane.

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Plastic straws were also noted sticking out of sea turtle nostrils, and sickening or killing seabirds, fish, manatees, dolphins and other marine mammals.

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But it’s also an environmental thing, I just didn’t want to sell something that would end up in a river, choking out a sea turtle.

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