The recent loss of a critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle found ensnared in derelict crabbing gear near the Farallon Islands has cast a pall over the troubled commercial fishing fleet ...

Leatherbacks, the largest type of sea turtle in the world, are susceptible to getting entangled in fishing gear. The Center for Coastal Studies' MAER team working to unwind the entanglement from the ...

They appear straight out of prehistory – and they are; the reptiles have survived mostly unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs. They are a soft shelled turtle with thick, black, rubbery skin where ...

The Center for Coastal Studies said its Marine Animal Entanglement Response team disentangled a leatherback sea turtle in the Cape Cod Bay on Sunday. The sea turtle was dragging a buoy line of fishing ...

There are five species of marine turtles in Florida: loggerhead, green, leatherback, Kemp's Ridley and hawksbill.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of Ueloca colemanorum exhibiting the deep-diving behavior characteristic of leatherback sea turtles. (Photo ...