A leatherback sea turtle was spotted on New Smyrna Beach ... which can take up to 70 days. With water temperatures expected ...

Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center found the second earliest loggerhead nest in its monitoring history on April 6.

The sheriff's office said its Marine Unit, alongside the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One late summer day in 1961 a biologist named Sherman Bleakney got a telephone call about a strange sea creature that ...

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 ...

So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the leatherback sea turtle ... More reliably than water temperature ...

However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea turtles have a body temperature that is noticeably higher than that of the surrounding water. Turtles are classified as amniotes ...

On January 15, a disturbing video surfaced on social media showing a leatherback sea turtle being dragged from the trunk of a ...

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This past Sunday, Loggerhead Marinelife Center found its first nesting loggerhead of the season on Juno Beach.

It's mostly good news for sea turtle populations, but experts say more needs to be done to keep the numbers of sea turtles ...

Leatherback turtles are difficult to see from boats, often raising only their heads from the water. Photo / Nathan Pettigrew Experts from the United States, Australia and Aotearoa are taking ...