PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Climate change threatens the extinction of leatherback sea turtles that have called the Pacific Ocean home for 150 million years, scientists said.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Genetic tests conducted by U.S. and Australian scientists have found all sea turtles are related, even carnivorous and herbivorous turtles.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. and international scientists are calling for protected "swimways" to save leatherback sea turtles and hammerhead sharks from fishing nets.
TITUSVILLE, Fla., March 1 (UPI) -- Leatherback sea turtles are coming ashore in Florida's Brevard County for their annual nesting season.
BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Wildlife officials say turtle-nesting season in Boca Raton, Fla., got off to an early start this year.
PHUKET, Thailand, April 18 (UPI) -- Several species of rare marine turtles in Thailand are threatened with imminent extinction as a result of the expansion of fishing and tourism operations. Turtle numbers off the coast of Phuket in the Andaman region have recently plummeted by 80 percent,
SWANSEA, Wales, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Researchers in Wales are working to determine if leatherback turtles are a British, rather than Caribbean, species, the BBC reported Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Malaysia has set aside 60 hectares of land off the east coast state of Terengganu to help conserve its dwindling number of endangered sea turtles.
HONOLULU, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The Hawaii-based Blue Ocean Institute has published a booklet on the importance of testing new hooks and fishing methods to conserve rare marine turtles.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (UPI) -- U.S. conservation groups and scientists have called on the United Nations to ban longline fishing in an effort to protect two species of sea turtles.
