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Leatherback turtle dives deeper than a Navy sub, smashing world record in the process
Earlier this year, the Western Pacific leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea ... Nature Conservancy's local community rangers protect sea turtles and their eggs from poaching and predators.
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Leatherback Sea Turtle
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 ...
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Petition Seeks to Protect Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— Conservation groups filed a legal petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise protected critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys ...
Rarely-seen sea turtle found dead on the Outer Banks had ‘quite a voyage’
A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week.
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Satellite tracking identifies risk zones for leatherback turtles
The last large populations of the leatherback turtle are at risk ... Maps of the daily locations of the turtles revealed that Atlantic leatherbacks use both deep sea international waters (more than ...
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NEST reports dead Leatherback Sea Turtle stranded in Corolla
Around noon on Monday, Nov. 4, NEST (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles) posted this announcement.
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Sea turtle nests increased along a Florida beach but hurricanes washed many away
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium said Friday that 271 nests were documented this year along a 21-mile stretch of beach ...
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Rarely-seen sea turtle found dead on the Outer Banks had ‘quite a voyage’
A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week. It’s unclear what killed the turtle, which NOAA researchers tagged with a tracking device last summer ...