While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

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 ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

As ancient as the dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is something of a dinosaur itself — and the heaviest reptile on the planet. This champion swimmer, whose diving capabilities are unmatched by ...

Their dark-colored skin, often speckled with white or pink spots, provides excellent camouflage in the open ocean. While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea ...

The turtle's body has been taken to the Natural History Museum for further investigation A leatherback turtle weighing about a quarter of a tonne (250kg) has been found washed up near an Essex river.

A "vulnerable" leatherback turtle badly entangled in trawler gear ... had been rubbing on its head and had taken a bit of its skin off. "We thought it would be easy to free him but it turned ...

WWF is working with a local community in Costa Rica to stop egg poaching of leatherback turtle nests. Costa Rica. April 2005.- WWF Central America works hard to save the endangered Pacific leatherback ...

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.

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.