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"I didn't consider that it's such a huge monster, especially the leatherback, " he said.

The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the blood vessels in the base of as flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.

The journey, tracked by satellite, provides the first record of a trans-Pacific migration by a leatherback.

Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.

In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.

Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.

leatherback turtle . the new hook has also in many cases led to higher swordfish catches.

Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity .

Buller's albatrosses, Arctic terns, humpback whales and leatherback turtles may all read Earth's magnetic field in the same way.

type genus of the Dermochelyidae: leatherback turtles.

Contrary to what we would expect of reptiles, the leatherback turtle is actually warm-blooded.

But until now, nobody quite appreciated just how good leatherback turtles were at navigation.

Light pollution from Tamarindo is making life harder for leatherback turtles.

The Pacific Leatherback turtle is the largest one in the world.

Weighing more than 700 kilograms and reaching more than 1. 7 meters in length, the leatherback turtle is the world's largest marine reptile.

Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled.

One such story I did documented the leatherback sea turtle.

Anatomy of Several Systems in Leatherback Turtle