Science news articles about 'leatherback turtles'

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 14 (UPI) -- Tracks thought to belong to a leatherback turtle have been found in South Padre Island, Texas, for the first time since the 1930s, a biologist says.

... researchers haven't been able to capture the turtles' movements beyond about two years. He ... Trust. In this educational project, a race among leatherback turtles across the Pacific Ocean is simulated ...

... confirm the Central American Caribbean as the world's fourth largest nesting zone for the leatherback turtle after the Guayanas, Gabon and the island of Trinidad. However the success of Armila was ...

... has pioneered a soft rubber harness and a recipe that enabled him to raise and study leatherback turtles in captivity for more than two years -- a feat only one other team of scientists have achieved ...

Leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles on Earth, are threatened with extinction themselves, in large part due to the carelessness of humans. A professor addresses the threat of ...

... in the 1980s and 1990s. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists leatherback turtles as critically endangered globally, but detailed population assessments in much of the ...

... has yielded unprecedented insight into their behavior. While most sea turtles have widely varied dispersal patterns, the leatherbacks from the beaches at Playa Grande consistently follow a relatively ...

... Playa Grande, Costa Rica, Pacific leatherbacks swim toward the Galapagos Islands. See ... real-time." In the recent study, Persistent Leatherback Turtle Migrations Present Opportunities for Conservation ...

... one of the oldest family trees in history, spanning 100 million years. But today leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles on Earth, are threatened with extinction themselves, in large ...

Leatherback turtles prefer use their right rear flipper rather than their left when laying eggs, scientists discover.

... ecosystem is listed as "threatened" mainly through losses at the hands of overfishing. "Just as we say that leatherback turtles are critically endangered, I looked at entire ecosystems as if they ...

... Pacific, including the Mariana Trench, and protect sea life, such as leatherback turtles and coral reefs. Georgette Douwma/Getty ImagesIn his eight years as president, George W. ...