Leatherback turtles' newly discovered migration route may be roadmap to salvation
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 14:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
With a name like "Leatherback Turtle" you might think the sea turtles could stand up to just about anything the ocean can throw at them, and for more than a hundred million years, they have. But tough, long-lived critters though they are, the population of leatherbacks in the eastern Pacific Ocean has plummeted by over 90 percent in the last 20 years.