While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), populations are often categorized by their oceanic regions. Pacific leatherback sea turtles, for example, are renowned ...

At that depth, the leatherback swam deeper than the ... Another of their tagged turtles swam across the entire Pacific Ocean. Peter Waldie, a marine scientist who leads The Nature Conservancy ...

While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), populations are often categorized by their oceanic regions. Pacific leatherback sea turtles, for example, are renowned for ...

At the current rate of decline, the critically endangered Eastern Pacific leatherback turtle will vanish within 60 years. We have just 10 years left to put measures in place to save it ...

While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback is somewhat ... and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the ...

Scientists estimate that leatherback sea turtles have declined in abundance off California by 5.6% annually over nearly 30 years. An estimated 50 Pacific leatherbacks now forage in California waters ...

WWF is working with a local community in Costa Rica to stop egg poaching of leatherback turtle nests. Costa Rica. April 2005.- WWF Central America works hard to save the endangered Pacific leatherback ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for failing to protect Pacific leatherback sea turtles and ...