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 ...

This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully Help save sea turtles in Trinidad and Tobago Help save sea ...

What mystery drives leatherback turtles, these giants of the sea, to dive to astonishing depths? Last January, a western Pacific leatherback turtle set a record by reaching a depth of 4,409 feet ...

As ancient as the dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is something of a dinosaur itself — and the heaviest reptile on the planet. This champion swimmer, whose diving capabilities are unmatched by ...

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 ...

A large leatherback turtle has been found dead on a beach in Ceredigion. The 1.8m (6ft) long female was discovered at Mwnt, near Cardigan, on Saturday, following a stormy night. Rod Penrose ...

A huge leatherback turtle has washed up on Perranporth Beach in what has been described as an 'unusual stranding'. The large sea turtle was discovered on the sandy shoreline yesterday (November 4 ...

A turtle rarely spotted off the UK was likely to have still been alive when it became stranded, tests suggest. The quarter-tonne (550lb) adult male leatherback was dissected by a team from the ...

A species never before seen in Estonia was found on the island of Saaremaa this summer: a leatherback turtle. The body is now being studied by experts at the University of Tartu (TÜ) Natural History ...

The last large populations of the leatherback turtle are at risk, a new study shows. The last large populations of the leatherback turtle are at risk because their migratory routes in the Atlantic ...

In early June 2024, Donna Shello, an adult female leatherback turtle, was hanging out on a ... are an estimated 1.2g to 3.6g CO2 per page view. Find out more about how we calculated this figure ...

Estonian scientists are looking for an expert from abroad to study the origin of a leatherback turtle that washed up on the island of Saaremaa, a long way away from its usual Atlantic Sea migration ...