Smaller turtles tended to ingest more plastic, possibly because they were "less experienced" and so "more likely to eat ... showed leatherback turtles ate plastic that looked like jellyfish.

In his reaction to the viral video of the Leatherback Turtle, Arojinle called for better protection of our wildlife and ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui ... Leatherbacks feed on jellyfish and other gelatinous creatures. According to many reports ...

Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells ...

Even from the boat, it's clear that the turtles here are absorbed in eating ... the gadget tracks the leatherback as it browses the rich jellyfish gardens tens of feet below the waves.

Whale-watching trips observed three leatherback sea turtles in August 2020 in Monterey Bay. “Leatherbacks that forage for jellyfish off the California coast will now receive greater protection in our ...