In 2026, biologists at Cape Hatteras National Seashore have already found four nests from endangered leatherback sea turtles.

South Florida beachgoers are getting some encouraging wildlife news this summer: endangered leatherback sea turtles are ...

What mystery drives leatherback turtles, these giants of the sea, to dive to astonishing depths? Last January, a western Pacific leatherback turtle set a record by reaching a depth of 4,409 feet ...

For the first time in years, leatherbacks have returned to nest in significant numbers on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. These gargantuan sea turtles look like behemoths from a bygone age, which ...

Discover Juno, the 1,200-pound leatherback turtle, as she makes history with her 300th nest on Florida's beaches after 25 ...

Imagine yourself swimming in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic. The color blue dominates this part of the world - there's nothing to see but a vast expanse of water and sky in all directions. The winds ...

The leatherback turtle is one of the ocean’s titans. The largest member of the turtle family, it is also one of the world’s biggest reptiles, outsized only by some species of crocodile. Adults can ...

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA — The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile (10,000 km) ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within ...

For most sea turtles, the journey to find the ocean from their nests is pretty straightforward. However, leatherback hatchlings more often crawl around in circles trying to find the ocean. Circling ...