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 ...

Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks, he recalled, were supposed to be creatures of the tropics, as out of place in chilly, gray Canadian waters as ...

"It's very unusual to get leatherback turtles in the southern North Sea." The team measured the turtle and scanned it for electronic tags, before removing its shell to examine the organs.

Leatherback turtles are the largest species of sea turtle and can grow up to 2.9 meters long. According to Niamh: "You couldn't miss it because it was so big, but we didn't know what it was ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect leatherback sea turtles as endangered under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The commission acted on the ...

A large leatherback turtle has been found dead on a beach in Ceredigion. The 1.8m (6ft) long female was discovered at Mwnt, near Cardigan, on Saturday, following a stormy night. Rod Penrose ...

These include soft-shelled turtles, aquatic turtles, giant tortoises and sea turtles. Although the leatherback turtle is not ...

A Good Samaritan called it in. A giant leatherback sea turtle was struggling in the waters of Cape Cod last Thursday. Scientists and staff from the New England Aquarium Anderson Cabot Center for ...

In Minnesota, for example, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe passed a tribal law granting legal rights to wild rice ... which has some of the most important nesting spots in the world for leatherback sea ...

Vulnerable wildlife, including endangered southern sea otters, leatherback sea turtles, and blue whales, can now, officially, find sanctuary along the Central Coast. A decades-long campaign to ...