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 ...

This giant leatherback sea turtle tangled in crab buoys was saved from tiger sharks as they closed in on it. Thankfully, three men cut the ropes around its neck and set it free to escape from the ...

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 ...

By day the beach looks as if giant dune buggies have romped ... the more remarkable because of the gantlet the turtles run just offshore. Leatherback nesting season is also the time when the ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A leatherback sea turtle was spotted on New Smyrna Beach, marking the earliest recorded sea turtle nest on County-managed beaches. Although sea turtle nesting season ...

A leatherback turtle laid a nest on March 9 in New Smyrna Beach. The nest marks the earliest in a year on record that a turtle has laid a nest on a county-managed beach. Turtle nesting season ...

Late on a January night in 1993 I found myself on a beach on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, kneeling in the sand beside a leatherback sea turtle. Like a giant mango with wings, the huge black ...

The institutions getting money under the Great Nicobar Island mega infrastructure project facilitated the wildlife and ...

There are five Florida sea turtle species: Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, Leatherback and green. For part of the year, the beach becomes home to sea turtles who are in the nesting process.