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 was a leatherback sea turtle found on the ... diet based on their unique physical makeup. Check out these fun facts ...

Although the leatherback turtle is not zoologically part of the sea turtle family, it is often grouped with them in the ...

Sprawled on its back amid a curious crowd was an immense black sea turtle ... to catch a leatherback, alive. "We kind of thought it was a joke," says Bert, "but it sounded like fun." ...

A dead leatherback sea turtle has washed up at a beach in Cornwall following Storm Ciarán. Experts described it as an "unusual stranding", while staff who work at Perranporth Beach said it was ...

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.

Carly Oakley about the nesting success of sea turtles on Pinellas County beaches this season and how sea turtle nests were impacted by the hurricanes. Oakley said that for the first time, ...

"It's very unusual to get leatherback turtles in the southern North Sea." The team measured the turtle and scanned it for electronic tags, before removing its shell to examine the organs.

Fingal County Council has confirmed what is believed to be a leatherback turtle has been found after being washed up on Portmarnock Beach in Dublin yesterday. The Marine Institute provided a ...

Therefore, while the claim that the turtle shown in the video is the largest species is true, the perceived size was artificially amplified through the camera angle. The video was captured on Macao ...