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 ...

Although the leatherback turtle is not zoologically part of the sea turtle family, it is often grouped with them in the ...

Sea turtles, it appears ... Unfortunately, we’re stuck making decisions with imperfect information. Leatherback hatchlings encounter plastic bottles and other debris as they crawl across ...

Turtles are ending up in the cold waters of Cape Cod Bay. Here's how the New England Aquarium is warming them up and nursing them back to health.

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 ... The turtles use these two pieces of information ...

Discover the incredible journey of Bootes, a leatherback sea turtle tracked from Florida to New York's coastal waters!

Fingal County Council has said what is believed to be a leatherback turtle was found after being washed up on Portmarnock Beach in Dublin yesterday. In a statement, the Marine Institute confirmed ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

sea turtles and jellyfish, to name but a few organisms. PAT tags accurately record and store information about water depth, temperature, and ambient light levels. Frequently used for monitoring ...

There are four species of sea turtles around Cape Cod: Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, Green, and Leatherback ... Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information.