The footage, recorded from a low angle to make the turtle look bigger, showed the animal slowly shuffling along a beach.

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 ...

A turtle rarely spotted off the UK was likely to have still been alive when it became stranded, tests suggest. The quarter-tonne (550lb) adult male leatherback was dissected by a team from the ...

What mystery drives leatherback turtles, these giants of the sea, to dive to astonishing depths? Last January, a western Pacific leatherback turtle set a record by reaching a depth of 4,409 feet ...

As ancient as the dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is something of a dinosaur itself — and the heaviest reptile on the planet. This champion swimmer, whose diving capabilities are unmatched by ...

Leatherback sea turtles are classified as vulnerable on the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, with populations declining due to habitat loss, poaching, and plastic ...

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 ...