The olive ridley turtle is named for the generally greenish color of its skin and shell, or carapace. It is closely related to the Kemp’s ridley, with the primary distinction being that olive ...

In Turtle Beach, a documentary from The Nature of Things, cameraman Hugo Kitching waits (very) patiently in Ostional, Costa Rica, for olive ridley sea turtles to arrive en masse to nest — a ...

Locals call it the arribada, Spanish for “arrival”: the magical days and nights when tens of thousands of sea turtles come ashore on Costa Rica ... arribada is the olive ridley sea turtle.