The majestic leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle in the world, growing to more than 6 feet in length. It is also one of the most threatened. A major new study of migration patterns has ...

Along the massive and mountainous Bird’s Head Peninsula lies the long lonely beaches that support the largest remaining leatherback turtle in the Pacific Ocean. The beach is now being proposed as Abun ...

Supporting the largest remaining leatherback turtle populations in the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have committed to a tri-national partnership to conserve the ...

Fewer than 1,000 leatherback sea turtles remain in the Eastern Pacific, nesting along the coastline that runs from Mexico to Ecuador. Scientists have previously fitted tracking devices to leatherbacks ...

The ocean conceals species so fantastical that they may just belong in mythology, but the leatherback sea turtle fits the bill. As heavy as an automobile and migrating through hundreds of kilometers ...

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The endangered species often feasts off jellyfish in local waters.

The 2,000-pound leatherback is the fourth-largest reptile. Leatherback turtles can grow up to eight feet long. Unlike other reptiles, leatherback turtles use thermoregulation to warm up or cool down.

Leatherback sea turtles start life the same size as other sea turtles. As they age, however, they grow progressively larger. These giants of the reptile world are relics from the Late Triassic and the ...