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

The video genuinely featured a leatherback turtle, the largest species of its kind. However, it was filmed from a low angle, ...

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

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported the 2024 sea turtle nesting season started off with an exciting and rare ...

Despite the 2024 hurricanes, conservationists found a leatherback sea turtle nest on Pinellas County beaches - and many of ...

Around noon on Monday, Nov. 4, NEST (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles) posted this announcement.

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — A 987-pound leatherback sea turtle “pinged” off the coast ... For OCEARCH to record a “ping,” the animal needs to surface for about 90 seconds and three consecutive ...

Leatherback sea turtles are classified as vulnerable on ... as its sensors could detect the body heat of warm-blooded animals – or more specifically the thermal differences between animals ...

CLEARWATER — Sea turtle nests increased this year along a stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast before a trio of hurricanes washed ...

A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week. It’s unclear what killed the turtle, which NOAA researchers tagged with a tracking device last summer ...

The aquarium's patrol team was also able to witness the leatherback hatchlings make their way to the sea. There were also two green turtle nests documented. Most of the nests in the area are ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Sea turtle nests increased this year along a stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast before a trio of hurricanes washed many of them away, aquarium officials said Friday. There were ...