Leatherback Turtles Are the Largest Sea Turtles There are seven species of sea turtles found in oceans around the world. Of the seven, the leatherback is the largest. Leatherback sea turtles are ...

Homopus areolatus – one of the smallest recent tortoise species. Credit: Abu Shawka, WikimediaCommons International researchers, including Dr. Gabriel Ferreira of the Senckenberg Center for Human ...

Earlier this year, more than a thousand sea turtles were found cold-stunned along the Texas coast when the air temperature ...

Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues about diet, movement, and ocean change over time. Sea turtles don’t just ...