A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern ... Leatherbacks tend to stay in deep water, with a range ...

The leatherback sea turtle is the heavyweight of the sea turtle ... which helps them glide effortlessly through the water. Their unique shell structure also allows them to withstand the crushing ...

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 ...

The leatherback also propels itself with an efficiency no other sea turtle can match. All sea turtles can fly through the water by flapping their flippers vertically, generating thrust on both the ...

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

As the largest living turtle species, the leatherback reaches up to 10 feet in length and weighs an average of 500 to 1,500 pounds. HABITAT: Leatherbacks are deep-water turtles but also forage in ...

“When the Sound water drops below 50 these turtles start ... temperature the way that birds and mammals can. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) does have a few physiological ...

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.

However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea turtles have a body temperature that is noticeably higher than that of the surrounding water. Turtles are classified as amniotes ...

These turtles are increasingly spending time around the coast of Britain because of warming water temperatures and the swarms of jellyfish they prey on. Unusually leatherback turtles are warm-blooded.

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 ...