The Martin County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rescued a massive leatherback ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The project was a collaboration between the Department of Conservation, NIWA, Australia's Monash University, and American non ...

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

Despite 2025 being in its early months, the rising number of green sea turtle deaths in Terengganu has reached an alarming ...

According to Wan Zuriana Wan Sulaiman, Turtle Conservation project manager at the Marine Conservation and Research ...

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.