At dawn on Trinidad’s Grande Rivière, one of the most important leatherback nesting beaches in the world, an adult female uses her front flippers to toss sand over her egg chamber, hiding her ...

Other sea turtles are faithful to specific nesting beaches and feeding grounds, which makes them especially vulnerable as human pressures increase. But the leatherback can be more of an ...

Female leatherbacks nest several times during a season, laying clutches of approximately 100 eggs each. After two months, white-striped leatherback hatchlings emerge from the nest. Hatchlings make ...

The petition asks the wildlife agency to protect three important leatherback nesting beaches in Puerto Rico and to consider the addition of other important nesting beaches for this species on the ...

They’re frequently found in the Pacific Ocean, where Pacific leatherback sea turtles traverse thousands of miles between feeding and nesting sites. From the warm waters of tropical and ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname - Following the massive die-off of leatherback turtles in the Guianas, one of the most important nesting areas for marine turtles in the world, WWF, the conservation organization, ...

The statistics include nest counts for the Loggerhead, Green Turtle, Leatherback, and Kemp’s Ridley Sea turtles. Melbourne Beach Florida Turtle Tracks at Sunrise Photo Credits: Marie Potter The ...

Turtle populations continue to face unpredictable challenges from climate change, according to a joint study between ...

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.