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

Unlike the massive, overhanging shell of other sea turtles, the leatherback's flexible ... the eastern Pacific leatherbacks migrate south, across the Equator, to feed in the nutrient-rich waters ...

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 ...

Leatherback turtles undertake an enormous migration from the temperate feeding waters to the tropical breeding waters, a journey of over 7,000km. These turtles are increasingly spending time ...

The turtles use these two pieces of information ... and animals would be able to use those quite well for migration. So as I watched that leatherback in Costa Rica use her oar-like front flippers ...

MIGRATION: In the Pacific ... undeveloped beaches is toward the open horizon of the sea. LIFE CYCLE: Leatherback sea turtles reach sexual maturity at five to 15 years and live 45 years or more.

This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about 3,000 miles each year. Some will travel all the way from Canada to Mexico. Leatherback turtles will swim ...

The NSW government is set to remove shark nets at beaches from Newcastle to Wollongong a month early this year amid growing concerns from marine advocates and experts.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

Leatherback turtles are difficult to see from boats ... “Some of the population migrate here after nesting to forage on jellyfish and salps, but we don’t have a lot of information about ...