JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — Biologists with the Loggerhead Marine Life Center (LMC) did not have to wait long for their first encounter with a sea turtle during this nesting season. They didn’t ...

The Loggerhead Marine Life Center found her. Georgie is a leatherback sea turtle, a species that typically weighs between 750 and 1,000 pounds and is the largest turtle species in the world.

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 ...

Sea turtle season doesn't start until May 1, but a female leatherback crawled onto Vanderbilt Beach and laid a nest, the first historic account of this massive species laying eggs on this beach ...

The crew of a charter boat in Clearwater, Florida, helped rescue a rare Leatherback sea turtle tangled in a rope attached to a crab trap. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Leatherbacks are the largest species of sea turtles and are critically endangered. Heat-related deaths of turtle eggs and hatchlings in nests before they emerge and enter life at sea was ...

By reducing bycatch, observing fisheries and responding to sea turtle strandings and entanglements, the Sea Turtle Early Restoration Project hopes to turn the tide in the turtles’ favor. “It’s hard to ...

Windy is an adult leatherback sea turtle who weighed 916 pounds and was 5 feet 2 inches long when she was tagged in April 2023.. She pinged off Jacksonville and the St. Augustine coastline early ...

On Wednesday, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center reported the state's first hatchlings of the season at their "Nest No. 1" on Jekyll Island with tracks in the sand nearby.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A rare leatherback sea turtle weighing 500 pounds is being treated at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston after being rescued from a remote Georgetown County island ...

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 ...