Science news articles about 'leatherback sea turtle'

... resolution urging nations to protect the leatherback sea turtle and sharks from the world's industrial fisheries ... Playa Grande, Costa Rica, Pacific leatherbacks swim toward the Galapagos Islands. See ...

PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Climate change threatens the extinction of leatherback sea turtles that have called the Pacific Ocean home for 150 million years, scientists said.

For the first time since the 1930s, federal biologists confirmed that a leatherback sea turtle has nested on a Texas beach, at the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi.

Race fans can cheer on their favorite leatherback sea turtles during the online "instant replay" of the animals' roughly 3,700-mile (6,000-kilometer) migration.

An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world's largest. The research, published in the May issue of Biological ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 19 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, say they're thrilled a rare leatherback sea turtle they tagged and released last summer turned up in Colombia.