1. Leatherback turtles usually mate every other year.

2. Reptiles, inhabit, species, leatherback, flipper, lung, shell, predator, hatch.

3. One beneficiary of this emerging technology is the leatherback sea turtle, which marine biologists usually identify by conventional plastic tags.

4. In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.

5. They warn that leatherback turtles around the world will disappear if current fishing methods continue.

6. 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.

7. The Pacific Leatherback turtle is the largest one in the world.

8. Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.

9. Scientists have appealed for international cooperation to protect leatherback sea turtles.

10. Concern for the leatherback grew after populations in the Indo-Pacific crashed by more than 90 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.

11. The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the blood vessels in the base of as flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.

12. A leatherback turtle emerges from the surf in search of a nesting site on Trinidad's Matura Beach.

13. "I didn't consider that it's such a huge monster, especially the leatherback, " he said.

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14. Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled.

15. They are calling for new fishing agreements to save the leatherback turtles.

16. But until now, nobody quite appreciated just how good leatherback turtles were at navigation.

17. Weighing more than 700 kilograms and reaching more than 1.7 meters in length, the leatherback turtle is the world's largest marine reptile.

18. At least five species of turtles nested on Ghanaian beaches in the past, but today it's believed to be just the leatherback, olive ridley and green turtles.

19. Monney had never seen a sea turtle before Dec. 17, when he caught a glimpse of the leatherback — estimated weight 1, 700 pounds — and an olive ridley the same night.

20. The new study was carried out with the help of Parcs Gabon, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Marine Turtle Partnership for Gabon, the Trans-Atlantic Leatherback Conservation Initiative and WWF.

21. The journey, tracked by satellite, provides the first record of a trans-Pacific migration by a leatherback.