This story is brought to you through our news-gathering partnership with The Outer Banks Voice. After 70 days of incubation, 19 hatchlings started their journey to the ocean from the first Leatherback ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - During a fishing trip in southern Alabama, a family of four discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle. The Poarch Creek Indians released the ...

A Good Samaritan called it in. A giant leatherback sea turtle was struggling in the waters of Cape Cod last Thursday. Scientists and staff from the New England Aquarium Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean ...

Highly mobile marine species can travel long distances, which in some cases extend over entire ocean basins. This is especially true for sea turtles, which have a spatially complex life cycle that for ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - During a fishing trip in southern Alabama, a family of four discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle. A family of four recently discovered ...