Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells ...

DESCRIPTION: The leatherback sea turtle is distinguished by its soft, leathery shell, which is predominantly black and made of tough, oil-saturated connective tissue. Its flippers lack claws and are ...

Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks, he recalled, were supposed to be creatures of the tropics, as out of place in chilly, gray Canadian waters as ...

The Martin County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rescued a massive leatherback ...

Leatherback turtles undertake an enormous migration from the temperate feeding waters to the tropical breeding waters, a journey of over 7,000km. These turtles are increasingly spending time ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A leatherback sea turtle was spotted on New Smyrna Beach, marking the earliest recorded sea turtle nest on County-managed beaches. Although sea turtle nesting season ...

A leatherback turtle laid a nest on March 9 in New Smyrna Beach. The nest marks the earliest in a year on record that a turtle has laid a nest on a county-managed beach. Turtle nesting season ...

So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the leatherback sea turtle, one of the world’s largest reptiles.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.