Leatherback Turtle - World's Biggest turtle

Then scientific name for Leatherback turtle is Dermochelys coriacea. The leatherback is the largest living turtle and the only sea turtle that lacks a hard shell. The leatherback turtle height is 4 to 6 feet and its weight is about 660 to 1,100 pounds. The diet of leatherback turtle is jellyfish. It usually found in Open Ocean, northern part of Alaska, and southern part of Africa.

Ever recorded largest leatherback turtle found on the West Coast of Wales and weighs is about 916 kg.Leatherbacks have in history been taken only infrequently for their meat. The utmost threat used to be to their eggs, and this threat still exists. There are not as many eggs to poach these days; however, because smaller amount leatherbacks show up to nest. Scientists have accomplished that gill-net and longline fisheries are seems to be blame.