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 story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks, he recalled, were supposed ...

OCRACOKE ISLAND, N.C. — For the first time in over 20 years of record-keeping, Cape Hatteras National Seashore reported finding two leatherback sea turtle nests on its beaches in the same season.

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (WBTV) - Multiple leatherback sea turtle nests have been located along Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina for the first time in recorded history. Seashore ...

WASHINGTON— A new review of leatherback sea turtle science concludes that seven distinct populations of leatherback sea turtles face a high extinction risk. The National Marine Fisheries Service and U ...

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.