Loggerhead Marinelife Center researchers spotted a large leatherback turtle named Bootes nesting on Juno Beach Thursday night. Weighing in at 1,000 pounds, she is one of the biggest leatherback ...

Out of the thousands of sea turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and shuffling toward the ocean around Florida, only 40 were leatherbacks from a Sanibel Island clutch laid by their mammoth mama on ...

In a doubly rare discovery, eggs from large, jellyfish-eating sea creatures were found on an Outer Banks beach in North Carolina. One nest is uncommon enough, but for the first time since ...

The largest species of sea turtle created a spectacle on a Florida beach Friday when she came ashore in the daylight, which is very rare, to lay eggs. "No one really knows why some turtles choose to ...

An endangered leatherback sea turtle was killed by a propeller strike along the North Carolina coast, according to the N.C. State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology. “A leatherback ...

Pilot Martial Ngangnang readies the NOAA Twin Otter on Wednesday for an aerial survey for leatherback turtles. As someone who’s spent decades researching the Western Pacific leatherback turtle, Scott ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The largest sea turtle in the world doesn’t have a hard shell. Instead, the leatherback turtle has a tough, rubbery skin, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These ocean ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb 27 (Reuters) - The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile (10,000 km) ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go ...

What Do Sea Turtles Eat? Sea turtle diets vary widely based on the species. The typical sea turtle that comes to mind is the green sea turtle. Green sea turtles eat mostly algae and seagrasses, which ...

Investigator Chris Sasso with NOAA National Marine Fisheries applies a satellite tag to the rear end of a leatherback sea turtle shell found off Cape Lookout NC. CMAST photo An endangered leatherback ...