A rare and endangered leatherback sea turtle has been found washed up on a beach, with wildlife officers unsure what caused its death. The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health, a research program, ...

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 ...

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled sea ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Highly mobile marine species can travel long distances, which in some cases extend over entire ocean basins. This is especially true for sea turtles, which have a spatially complex life cycle that for ...

Marine biologists warn that the western Pacific leatherback could go extinct without immediate conservation measures and transnational cooperation. This subpopulation has decreased at a rate of 5.6% ...