LIFE CYCLE: Leatherback sea turtles reach sexual maturity at ... POPULATION TREND: Once numbering more than 100,000 nesting females, the leatherback sea turtle has suffered exponential declines in ...

So a few animals retain primitive systems with the sole purpose of measuring ambient light—of which the most unusual is the leatherback sea turtle ... And some corals cycle reproduction by ...

Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is ... between breeding and feeding areas of any sea turtle, averaging 3,700 miles each way.

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A giant leatherback sea turtle got a personal escort back to the open ocean after taking a wrong turn into boat traffic. What could have ended in a heartbreaking ...