A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week.

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth, growing up to seven feet long and exceeding 2,000 pounds. These reptilian relics are the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles that ...

The footage, recorded from a low angle to make the turtle look bigger, showed the animal slowly shuffling along a beach.

The National Seashore says female leatherbacks typically lay between 4-8 clutches in a season, nesting approximately every 10 days. Experts say given this pattern, both nests could belong to the ...

Tolerant even of the extreme temperatures of the Arctic Circle, leatherbacks can't endure humanity's assault on the world's oceans much longer. The Center has been going to court to defend loggerhead ...

Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks, he recalled, were supposed to be creatures of the tropics, as out of place in chilly, gray Canadian waters as ...

October 31 might be best known for Halloween, but it also marks the end of a very important season in Florida.

This nesting season also featured new research. Sign up for our Newsletters. Loggerhead Marinelife Center did its first-ever ...

The Pacific leatherbacks are most at risk of extinction, with both Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific leatherbacks continuing to decline. Key nesting habitats in the Eastern Pacific are in Mexico ...

Reproductive success, which is the number of turtle hatchlings that make it to the ocean, varied by species this year. It was ...

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One hypothesis was just starting to be floated in those days: that to aid their long-distance migrations leatherbacks and other sea turtles appear to use the Earth's magnetic field (see Figure 1).