A leatherback turtle emerges from the surf in search of a nesting site on Trinidad's Matura Beach.
Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.
In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.
But until now, nobody quite appreciated just how good leatherback turtles were at navigation.
Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.
One study in 2004 estimated leatherback turtles had only a 50 percent chance of avoiding being accidentally snared by a deep sea fishing line each year.
