MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A giant leatherback sea turtle got a personal escort back to the open ocean after taking a wrong turn into boat traffic. What could have ended in a heartbreaking ...

As ancient as the dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is something of a dinosaur itself — and ... to evaluate the risk of leatherback entanglement when deciding whether to open and close its ...

The sheriff's office said its Marine Unit, alongside the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), ...

So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the leatherback sea turtle ... into the open air. And some corals cycle ...

it keeps its options open. Other sea turtles are faithful to specific nesting beaches and feeding grounds, which makes them especially vulnerable as human pressures increase. But the leatherback ...

Leatherback turtles undertake an enormous migration from the temperate feeding waters to the tropical breeding waters, a journey of over 7,000km. These turtles are increasingly spending time ...

The Martin County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rescued a massive leatherback ...

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 ...