Half Developed Egg of a Sea Turtle on a Beach in India

Partially developed dead sea turtle embryo and egg shell on a beach in Odisha, India.

  • Image ID 56154477
  • Production Year 2016
  • Length 00:00:05
  • Production Company Riverbank Studios
  • ResolutionHD
  • FormatMP4
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Synopsis

The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) is the smallest of the sea turtles. It gets its name from its heart-shaped, olive green coloured shell.During mass nesting some turtles die due to natural reasons and exhaustion. In 2016 the number of olive ridley sea turtles reported dead in Odisha increased with coastal development, climate change, and other sources of beach erosion being cited as the causes


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Riverbank Studios