Using satellite tags, the team, which this year included an aquarium biologist, collects data on leatherback reproductive behaviors and patterns, including nest dispersal (where leatherbacks lay ...

The injured reptile was transferred to a marine wildlife hospital for treatment of an infected limb entangled in fishing lines.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Watching the manatees slowly barrel-rolling beneath the water and effortlessly floating up to take a mouthful of crunchy ...

Don’t miss the city’s museums, which include those dedicated to gold, jade and social history. Tortuguero is named after the thousands of giant Hawksbill and Green turtles that nest here from July to ...

He warns that Braamspunt’s disappearance will have an outsized impact on leatherbacks, as 90% of the turtles coming to Suriname nest here, rather than on the other nesting beach of Galibi.