A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

Their dark-colored skin, often speckled with white or pink spots, provides excellent camouflage in the open ocean. While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea ...

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 ...

"We were really excited to find evidence that the Mid-Atlantic Bight serves as a major foraging ground for leatherbacks migrating," researcher Chris Sasso said.

is the largest and most widely distributed turtle in the world. The shell is flexible and covered in a black leathery skin (hence the name leatherback) with seven ridges running the length of the ...

Taken altogether, it’s likely that plesiosaur skin looked like a mixture of what can be found on today’s green sea and leatherback turtles. It’s a combination that paid off for the plesiosaur.

The turtle's body has been taken to the Natural History Museum for further investigation A leatherback turtle weighing about a quarter of a tonne (250kg) has been found washed up near an Essex river.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

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 ...