Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of Ueloca colemanorum exhibiting the deep-diving behavior characteristic of leatherback sea turtles. (Photo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has ...

Investigator Chris Sasso with NOAA National Marine Fisheries applies a satellite tag to the rear end of a leatherback sea turtle shell found off Cape Lookout NC. CMAST photo An endangered leatherback ...

The National Centre for Wildlife recorded a rare sighting of a leatherback sea turtle in the Red Sea, one of the world’s most ...

For the first time in 11 years, an endangered leatherback sea turtle has laid a nest on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island. A nest with 93 eggs was laid on the beach and found in the early morning on ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out fishing north of Mobile in 2021 when they spotted ...

Researchers have found new feeding grounds for endangered leatherback sea turtles along central parts of the U.S. East Coast. Before this discovery, scientists knew that the turtles migrated between ...

Two leatherback turtle nests were found on Cape Hatteras National Seashore in one season for the first time in over 20 years, the North Carolina park said. Photo from J. Walker via the National Park ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (WWLP) – A leatherback sea turtle was rescued after being found entangled in fishing gear. Scientists from the New England Aquarium’s Animal Health team and Sea Turtle Rescue and ...

An endangered leatherback sea turtle was killed by a propeller strike along the North Carolina coast, according to the N.C. State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology. “A leatherback ...