SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— Conservation groups filed a legal petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise protected critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— As a result of a petition filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that nesting habitat for leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) ...

For the first time in years, leatherbacks have returned to nest in significant numbers on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. These gargantuan sea turtles look like behemoths from a bygone age, which ...

The Leatherback Sea Turtle is the largest species of turtle on Earth. Told through the eyes of a 12 year-old boy, he has been keeping up with its status and journey in Thailand for 6 years. Learn ...

Among the hundreds of pages of internal Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) emails that led up to and followed the abandoned rescue of a leatherback sea turtle whose migration south was blocked by the ...

The death of a leatherback turtle has a wildlife protection group calling for changes to the link between Cape Breton and ...

In Puerto Rico, scientists and conservationists are deploying drones and satellite tags to gather data about leatherback sea turtles. Leatherback sea turtles, the largest species of turtles in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. This endangered species is moving into cooler waters in Canada.

Tuesday, June 20 was a happy day on North Carolina’s Outer Banks for conservationists and animal-lovers. A routine check on Ocracoke Island revealed a leatherback sea turtle nest filled with more than ...

The true extent of how successful conservation efforts to protect sea turtle populations along the western coast of Central Africa have been is revealed in a new study, published in Frontiers in ...

It’s been a hot summer. The ocean has been hot too. Marine heat waves, or patches of warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures, are making headlines because we’ve never seen anything quite like what ...