Among the rarest of sights off North Carolina's Outer Banks is a leatherback sea turtle, and a tracking device attached to ...

The last large populations of the leatherback turtle are at risk, a new study shows. The last large populations of the leatherback turtle are at risk because their migratory routes in the Atlantic ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An enormous leatherback turtle, which witnesses guessed to be between 500 and 1,000 pounds, washed up on the shore of Hanna Park beach in Jacksonville early Sunday morning.

The numbers are mostly in for this year's turtle season on the island and while there were fewer loggerhead nests compared to last season, the counts were up for green and leatherback turtles.

Sea turtles have been around for millions of years. They are a hardy species that not only survived but thrived after the last mass extinction event. Today, however, many of the remaining seven ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Two Leatherback sea turtle nests were found on Cape Hatteras National Seashore, marking the first time in decades two nests were found on the seashore in one season, according to ...

'What we see in sea turtles is that they actually follow the same tracks in where they nest and where they find food,' Daniel Evans says This is the season when populations of sea turtles come back to ...

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 ...

St. Johns County saw a slight drop in total sea turtle nests reported this season compared with 2020, but a local turtle hospital has seen a busier year thus far. Sea turtle nesting season takes place ...

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 ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — She laid her eggs early and laid claim to a new record. A female leatherback sea turtle made history Tuesday as the earliest to lay a nest in the 17 years since the Indian River ...