leatherback

How To Use leatherback In A Sentence

• What adaptations do leatherback turtles have that could make balloons and grocery bags dangerous to them?
• Globally, there has been a sharp overall decline in leatherbacks over the past 15 years.
• My research focus is on the decline and potential extinction of loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean.
• Have students work in groups to create board games featuring the life of a leatherback turtle.
• The most distinguishing morphological characteristics of leatherbacks are their large size and dark color.
• In 1988, a leatherback was found measuring nine feet in length and weighing nearly 2,000 pounds.
• In the last five years, nests also have been documented for the rare Kemp's ridley and leatherback sea turtles.
• An ancient animal that swam with pliosaurs 100 million years ago, and whose numbers once were so vast they could impede ships, the leatherback is among the most endangered of sea turtles.
• But scientists have documented a precipitous decline of the Pacific leatherback in the past two decades.
• Oceana's scientists attribute the Mediterranean invasion partly to the overfishing of jellyfish predators there, including moonfish, triggerfish, and leatherback turtles, which are often caught accidentally as bycatch.