Among the rarest of sights off North Carolina's Outer Banks is a leatherback sea turtle, and a tracking device attached to ...

A leatherback sea turtle made a rare appearance at North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore, the National Park Service reports. National Park Service photo A lumbering sea creature that can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Out of the thousands of sea turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and shuffling toward the ocean around Florida, only 40 were leatherbacks from a Sanibel Island clutch laid by their mammoth mama on ...

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. "It's ...

Pilot Martial Ngangnang readies the NOAA Twin Otter on Wednesday for an aerial survey for leatherback turtles. As someone who’s spent decades researching the Western Pacific leatherback turtle, Scott ...

Sea turtles have been around for millions of years. They are a hardy species that not only survived but thrived after the last mass extinction event. Today, however, many of the remaining seven ...

CLARKE COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) - A fishing trip for a family of four, a few year’s ago, turned up a one-in-a-million find. The Coleman’s were on the Alabama river in Clarke County when they discovered a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...