Earlier this year, the Western Pacific leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) left a nesting site in the Solomon Islands and dove 4,409 feet (1,344 meters) beneath the ocean surface, according to the ...

For the first time in 11 years, an endangered leatherback sea turtle has laid a nest on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island. A nest with 93 eggs was laid on the beach and found in the early morning on ...

Among the rarest of sights off North Carolina's Outer Banks is a leatherback sea turtle, and a tracking device attached to one is giving researchers a stunning map of how far they swim to get here.

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 ...

A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week. It’s unclear what killed the turtle, which NOAA researchers tagged with a tracking device last summer in ...

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 ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

"Attention boaters!" called out the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute on Sunday evening. The institute warned of a leatherback sea turtle believed to be entangled in conch pot ...

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. – A rare 475-pound endangered leatherback sea turtle found stranded on a South Carolina beach was released into the ocean on Thursday following five days of treatment at the South ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (WWLP) – A leatherback sea turtle was rescued after being found entangled in fishing gear. Scientists from the New England Aquarium’s Animal Health team and Sea Turtle Rescue and ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...