At that depth, the leatherback swam deeper than the current Guinness World Record for the deepest turtle dive — 4,199 ... described the deep dive and epic migration as "truly spectacular." ...

Fingal County Council has confirmed what is believed to be a leatherback turtle has been found after being washed up on ...

Leatherbacks are long-distance seasonal migrants to Irish waters, and migrate to temperate waters for feeding and then return to the tropics to find a mate and to nest. Although they are rarely seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN EXTREMELY rare turtle was found washed up on popular Dublin beach yesterday. Fingal County Council has confirmed that a turtle believed to be a leatherback, was found washed up on Portmarnock ...

The turtles use these two pieces of information ... and animals would be able to use those quite well for migration. So as I watched that leatherback in Costa Rica use her oar-like front flippers ...

The leatherback sea turtle is the heavyweight of the sea turtle world ... literally. This sea turtle species can grow as long as a small car and weighing over half a ton! Unlike other sea turtles ...

The turtle's body has been taken to the Natural History Museum for further investigation A leatherback turtle weighing about a quarter of a tonne (250kg) has been found washed up near an Essex river.

A sea turtle previously recorded in Irish waters has been found dead on a north Co Dublin beach, as RTÉ News reports. The ...

The leatherback sea turtle is the heavyweight of the sea turtle world ... literally. This sea turtle species can grow as long as a small car and weighing over half a ton! Unlike other sea turtles, ...