300 endangered sea turtles found dead off Mexican coast

More than 300 olive ridley sea turtles were found dead and floating off a Mexican coast after getting tangled in a fishing net. The turtles had been caught in what is called a "ghost net," a fishing net that got lost and was never recovered by its owner. Ghost nets tend to float randomly in the ocean, trapping all kinds of marine life. The trapped animals then attract larger sea creatures looking for a free meal and which are in turn entangled by the net, reports National Geographic. The more than than 300 turtles were discovered off the coast of Mexico's Oaxaca state. Their shells had cracked after getting dried out under the sun for more than a week. The Mexican federal ag...

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