leatherback in English
In 1988, a leatherback was found measuring nine feet in length and weighing nearly 2,000 pounds.
Use "leatherback" in a sentence
1. Leatherback turtles usually mate every other year.
2. Reptiles, inhabit, species, leatherback, flipper, lung, shell, predator, hatch.
3. Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.
4. One such story I did documented the leatherback sea turtle.
5. Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.
6. They are calling for new fishing agreements to save the leatherback turtles.
7. Scientists have appealed for international cooperation to protect leatherback sea turtles.
8. The Pacific Leatherback turtle is the largest one in the world.
9. As the leatherback hobbles up the shore, it instinctively knows its destination.
10. "I didn't consider that it's such a huge monster, especially the leatherback, " he said.
11. Synonyms for Chelonian include turtle, tortoise, cooter, leatherback, loggerhead, slowpoke, snapper, terrapin and testudinal
12. But until now, nobody quite appreciated just how good leatherback turtles were at navigation.
13. In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.
14. They warn that leatherback turtles around the world will disappear if current fishing methods continue.
15. A leatherback turtle emerges from the surf in search of a nesting site on Trinidad's Matura Beach.
16. The journey, tracked by satellite, provides the first record of a trans-Pacific migration by a leatherback.
17. One beneficiary of this emerging technology is the leatherback sea turtle, which marine biologists usually identify by conventional plastic tags.
18. Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled.
19. Weighing more than 700 kilograms and reaching more than 7 meters in length, the leatherback turtle is the world's largest marine reptile.
20. Concern for the leatherback grew after populations in the Indo-Pacific crashed by more than 90 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.
21. In the sea there are turtles, like the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle and the leatherback turtle, that lay eggs on Maldivian beaches.
22. Acajou Hotel is a rustic, two-and-a-half-pearl eco-friendly hotel within eyeshot of Grande Reviere Beach, the world’s second largest nesting site for leatherback turtles
23. The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as previously thought.
24. Leatherback, the bouncer-like Kaiju which spews electro-magnetic charges, is a favorite of del Toro, who conceived it as a "brawler with this sort of beer belly"; the lumbering movements of gorillas were used as a reference.
25. The Armiger rex is a hybrid in Minecraft Jurassic World made of Tyrannosaurus rex; either Stygimoloch, Ankylosaurus, or Triceratops (dependent on the player); and "Turtle" DNA (presumably either the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) or leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea))