According to NOAA, cold-stunning is a condition where sea turtles become very weak or inactive after being exposed to cold ...

If cold-stunned sea turtles aren’t rescued from the low temperatures, they can develop harmful health conditions or even die ...

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 ...

They can probably swim as easily as rest." Unlike the massive, overhanging shell of other sea turtles, the leatherback's flexible, formfitting carapace merges almost seamlessly with its thick neck ...

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 ...

The state can play an important role in ensuring future generations of Californians still have leatherback turtles swimming off our coasts.” Listing leatherbacks under the state’s Endangered Species ...

The discovery of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle has veterinarians ... many more of its kind will swim north because of climate change. “Sometimes we see leatherback turtles, but these kinds ...