The footage, recorded from a low angle to make the turtle look bigger, showed the animal slowly shuffling along a beach.

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 ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported the 2024 sea turtle nesting season started off with an exciting and rare ...

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 ...

Around noon on Monday, Nov. 4, NEST (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles) posted this announcement.

This includes 12,968 loggerhead, 1,729 green and 254 leatherback turtle nests. All three species are either threatened or ...

The Pacific leatherback population has declined by 90% over the past 40 years, mostly because longline and gillnet fishing for tuna and swordfish entangles and drowns these giant, ancient, ...

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 ...

PETBOOK has summarized six exciting facts about the leatherback turtle in this article. There are currently 360 known species ...

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June through November. This year also marked the first time a documented leatherback turtle nest was found in Pinellas County. The aquarium’s patrol team ...

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 ...

This includes 12,968 loggerhead, 1,729 green and 254 leatherback turtle nests. All three species are either threatened or vulnerable. This is a 40% drop from last year’s record 25,025 nests ...