Leatherback sea turtle

Dermochelys coriacea

Also calledTortuga laúd / Baula (Spanish) · Tartaruga-de-couro (Portuguese) · Tortue luth (French) · Penyu belimbing (Malay) · Oshi-game オサガメ (Japanese)

The largest living turtle and the only one without a hard shell. Its back is a leathery skin over a mosaic of small bones. It dives deeper than 1,000 m, crosses whole oceans to feed on jellyfish, and stays warm in cold northern seas.

The leatherback sea turtle, sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is a large species of sea turtle. The largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, it reaches lengths of up to 2.7 metres and weights of 500 kilograms (1,100 lb). It is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochelyidae. It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell; instead, its carapace is covered by oily flesh and flexible, leather-like skin, for which it is named. Leatherback turtles have a global range, although there are multiple distinct subpopulations. The species as a whole is considered vulnerable, and some of its subpopulations are critically endangered. Wikipedia