As ancient as the dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is something of a dinosaur itself — and ... gear entanglements off the U.S. West and East coasts, as well as off Hawaii, for more than 20 years.

A lot of hands kind of went into helping this turtle get the treatment it needed so I think it’s cool for everyone to be here ...

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.

The leading cause of injury to Hawaiian green sea turtles was discovered to be entanglement from fishing gear from the latest ...

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.

Blood seeps from a dying leatherback ... communities. Sea turtle conservation has made great strides in recent decades in many places around the globe. In Florida and Hawaii, coastal resorts ...

So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the leatherback sea turtle, one of the world’s largest reptiles.

Turtles are ectotherms—their internal temperature varies according to the ambient environment, commonly called cold-blooded. However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea ...

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 ...