
SCE040-00031
A dead Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle lies covered in orange paint to signal biologists that it has been dead for awhile, and has been noted.
Keywords
- animal carcass
- atlantic ridley sea turtle
- Beach
- Close-up
- critically endangered
- day
- deceased animals
- full length
- Harker's Island
- kemp's ridley sea turtle
- Lepidochelys kempii
- no people
- North Carolina
- Orange
- outdoors
- Paint
- Sea turtle
- side view
- Skeleton
- Turtle
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