Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth, growing up to seven feet long and exceeding 2,000 pounds. These reptilian relics are the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles that ...

The National Seashore says female leatherbacks typically lay between 4-8 clutches in a season, nesting approximately every 10 ...

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 ...

The Pacific leatherbacks are most at risk of extinction, with both Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific leatherbacks continuing to decline. Key nesting habitats in the Eastern Pacific are in Mexico ...

As the largest living turtle species, the leatherback reaches up to 10 feet in length and weighs an average of 500 to 1,500 pounds. HABITAT: Leatherbacks are deep-water turtles but also forage in ...

Marine turtles spend almost their entire lives at sea – but little is known about the paths they take. Now, satellites are ...

“Protecting the state’s ocean to save leatherbacks benefits not only sea turtles, but whales and people too. The California Endangered Species Act will ensure that leatherbacks’ decline gets the ...

However, other species, like Donna Shello, are global travellers. According to Hays, the number of leatherbacks is declining in many places because they are wandering all over the oceans chasing ...

As little as five years ago, parts of the beach here were  500 meters or wider, more than a quarter of a mile, says Kiran ...

Yet beyond the piles of rubbish were hillsides lush with tropical vegetation. And poking out from between the ugly American fast-food joints were beautiful, dilapidated, colonial-style houses in ...

Here, travelers can witness this surreal scene starring leatherbacks, loggerheads and the endangered Atlantic green turtle on nightly tours led by licensed guides. Thailand's wet season ...