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

The video genuinely featured a leatherback turtle, the largest species of its kind. However, it was filmed from a low angle, ...

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 ...

Their unique adaptations, from diet to lifespan ... Weight Turtles: Typically larger than tortoises, with the Leatherback turtle being the largest, weighing up to 700 kilos.