While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback is somewhat ... area of sand that makes detection by predators difficult, and finally returning ...

The leatherback lineage goes back a hundred million years—"it was on the beaches when T. rex was the primary predator," says Scott Eckert of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network ...

WASHINGTON— A new review of leatherback sea turtle science concludes that seven distinct populations of leatherback sea turtles face a high extinction risk. The National Marine Fisheries Service and U ...

The leatherback sea turtle is the closest in the species to ... Cold-stunned turtle are also vulnerable to predators. With colder or more prolonged conditions, as typically seen in the ...

The leatherback sea turtle is the heavyweight of the sea turtle ... face a perilous journey from the nest to the ocean, dodging predators like crabs and seabirds. Surviving hatchlings spend ...

Leatherback turtles are the largest species of sea turtle and can grow up to 2.9 meters long. According to Niamh: "You couldn't miss it because it was so big, but we didn't know what it was ...

As for the ichthyosaur's skin, the camouflage pattern would have provided protection from Jurassic predators such ... as is the case in the leatherback sea turtle." Losing the scales and evolving ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to protect leatherback sea turtles as endangered under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The commission acted on the ...

The turtle's body has been taken to the Natural History Museum for further investigation A leatherback turtle weighing ... which records the discovery of sea creatures such as whales, porpoises ...