Leatherback Turtle

By Fatima

The leatherback turtle can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Adult leatherback turtles can be found in Canada and Norway and as far south

as New Zealand and South America.

Leatherback turtles are the only reptile known to remain active in temperatures as low as

4 degrees celcius.

Leatherback turtles are the largest turtle. They can grow up to 2.2 metres long and weigh up to 700 kilograms.

Leatherback turtles can swim as fast as 24 kilometres per hour.

Leatherback turtles love eating jellyfish. It’s very funny that leatherback turtles eat such a small thing. Leatherback turtles

eat sea squirts and other soft bodied animals

A leatherback turtle can live up to 50 years

Leatherback turtles live up to 50 years.

A female leatherback turtle can lay about 80 eggs. She lays her eggs in the sand, where they stay until the baby turtles hatch.

Leather back turtle love being in the sun.

Leatherback turtles can rest or sleep underwater for several hours at a time but this time is much shorter while diving for food or escaping predators.

Leather back turtles were listed as endangered in 1970.

Leatherback turtles look like a normal turtle, but their shell is soft, like leather.

The turtles begin to communicate in their eggs before they hatch. Researchers in Mexico found 300 different sounds from inside the eggs. An adult leatherback turtle sounds like they are yelling.

For something so big, they are very cute..