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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four ...

After peaking in 2022 with hundreds of green sea turtle strandings, cases of soft-shell syndrome are in decline. It is believed the disease is connected to the turtles' food source, after seagrass ...

Sunday, June 8 is World Oceans Day and we’re going to look at California’s state sea reptile as well as other turtles in our waters. One or more of the seven species of sea turtles can be found in ...

Best seen during the summer months of August and September off the south and west coasts of Britain and Ireland. They have also been spotted off the coasts of Shetland and north east Scotland and ...

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 ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

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 ...