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.

Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Credit Scott R. Benson, NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week.

Leatherback turtles undertake an enormous migration from the temperate feeding waters to the tropical breeding waters, a journey of over 7,000km. These turtles are increasingly spending time ...

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 ...

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

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium said Friday that 271 nests were documented this year along a 21-mile stretch of beach ...

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 ...