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What is the story exactly?
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The olive ridley gets its name from the olive green color of its heart-shaped carapace (top shell). The species is among the smallest of the world's sea turtles and is found primarily in the tropical regions of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans.
Answer 4 cannot be it right off the bat, since compound-compound doesn't exist.
If a compound - complex sentence loses the dependent clause, it is no longer complex, since complex sentences require a dependent and to independent clauses conjoined with a comma and conjunction such as "and". So answer 3 can not be it.
So that leaves either simple or compound.
The sentence is still contains an independent clause from when it was compound-complex, therefore answer 2, compound, is the answer.
Because he loes a lot and yes