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 ...

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.

Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks ... Old-timers say leatherbacks started arriving in force around the time the fisheries off Neil's Harbour ...

Leatherback turtles are the largest species of sea turtle and can grow up to 2.9 ... and they won’t hesitate to bite! But the animal found on Portmarnock beach was a turtle.