The leatherback turtle is the largest turtle, with no hard shell, which can survive in cool waters and dive deep in search of jellyfish and other food. The largest of the marine turtles, the ...

Leatherback turtles are named for their shell, which is leather-like rather than hard, like other turtles. They are the largest sea turtle species and also one of the most migratory, crossing both the ...

A rare leatherback turtle was spotted by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust. It was truly a once in a lifetime moment for all of us on board. An incredible encounter with a leatherback turtle ...

Under the Caribbean moonlight a female leatherback turtle uses her large front flippers to paddle her heavy body up Grande Riviere beach in Trinidad. The leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) is the ...

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 ...

Among the rarest of sights off North Carolina's Outer Banks is a leatherback sea turtle, and a tracking device attached to one is giving researchers a stunning map of how far they swim to get here.

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New light has been shed on the mysterious lifestyle of the critically endangered Leatherback turtle. Loggerhead turtles washed up in Devon and Cornwall returned to Gran Canaria Leatherback turtle's 12 ...

'Largest turtle that ever existed' weighed more than a tonne and had an eight-foot horned shell that it may have used for fighting other turtles 10 million years ago. Palaeontologists from the ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Last updated: 15 March 2011 The leatherback turtle is the largest ...