For the first time in years, leatherbacks have returned to nest in significant numbers on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.

FWC reports leatherback turtles set a new statewide record with 2,012 nests in 2025, surpassing the previous high set in 2022 ...

Leatherback sea turtles are one of the most migratory animals on Earth and are known to pass through Hawaii’s deep sea during their transoceanic migration. This is a picture of a nesting site outside ...

The death of a leatherback turtle has a wildlife protection group calling for changes to the link between Cape Breton and ...

There are a few theories about why sea turtles make occasional excursions into very deep (> 1000 m) waters of the bathyal zone. These involve escape from predation, thermoregulation, and prey ...

Among the hundreds of pages of internal Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) emails that led up to and followed the abandoned rescue of a leatherback sea turtle whose migration south was blocked by the ...

OCRACOKE, N.C. — For the first time in 16 years, leatherback sea turtle hatchlings emerged from a nest on Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks. The hatchlings came from a nest on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A leatherback sea turtle was spotted on New Smyrna Beach, marking the earliest recorded sea turtle nest on County-managed beaches.

A video purportedly showing an enormous leatherback turtle making its way across a beach to the ocean caught our attention in August 2018: This video has been online since at least May 2018, when it ...

A rare leatherback turtle left a nest in New Smyrna Beach over the weekend, marking the earliest point in a year that a turtle has nested on a county-managed beach in recorded history, according to a ...