Talk:Leatherback sea turtle

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Links

I added a link to SWOT Report, volume 1. This is a yearly publication and volume one focuses on the leatherback nesting beaches of the world, along with many articles about loggerhead natural history, behavior and conservation. Also includes information relating to other species of sea turtles, but the information is heavily leatherbacks. All products, publications and information produced by SWOT is to be freely used and distributed and is meant to be a public outreach, awareness and education tool for conservation of sea turtles. c 2007 (UTC)

Dermochelyidae as a new phylum

I know you all say leatherbacks are turtles and reptiles, but in fact that is just a big glitch.Their body temp is higher than the the outside temp.^[1] Turtleguy1134 (talk) 23:26, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't make them a phylum. The issue is with the definition of reptiles, not with whether a turtle is one. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 23:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Life expectancy

Is anything known about life expectancy in this species? or turtles in general? Autochthony wrote: 1433 Z 2012 January 04. 109.154.29.239 (talk) 14:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually not. The speculation is just that, and states 50 years or more. (That's all the data we have. Maybe in another 50 years it will say "100 years or more." ) But the article would be better if it addressed that lack of knowledge. Think I'll add it now. 66.87.0.98 (talk) 16:35, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnote to Lute

Is this hatnote necessary? The Leatherback turtle is sometimes known as the lute turtle, but there is no Wikipedia page with "lute" in the title that will lead you here. A look at Google, although far from definitive, doesn't lead to anything linking to here using the name "lute" for the turtle where the context is not already firmly turtles. Thryduulf (talk) 16:06, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Leatherback sea turtle/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: FunkMonk (talk · contribs) 17:25, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to quick fail this one. Too many missing citations, make sure to sort this out before nominating again. FunkMonk (talk) 17:25, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed videos

I deleted two videos from the Life History (Predation) section as they purported to be of leatherback hatchlings emerging from a nest, and a hatchling running for the sea. In fact neither video was of leatherbacks; they both showed cheloniid hatchlings.Gleedowengleedowen (talk) 19:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two odd sentences in physiology paragraph

There are two sentences in here that don't make any sense. I edited them, but my edits were reverted, so I figured I'd post them here and someone more legit could take a look.

"high body temperatures using metabolically generated cold" - You can metabolically generate HEAT, but you can't metabolically generate COLD, which is simply the absence of heat. Also, it doesn't make sense that you'd generate high body temperatures by generating cold. This sentence struck me as someone making a sly vandalism edit in the long-past.

"...recorded diving to depths as small as 1,280 metres (4,200 ft)..." - This just struck me as very odd wording. In context, its talking about the deep/large/great depths that the turtle can dive to, but then it uses "small" to describe the turtle's maximum recorded depth.

Anyway, maybe User:Prof._Mc can drop by and explain why he thought my edits were meant to "lighten up" the article.

^ Voyage of the turtle:in search of the earth's last dinosaur.

[1] Voyage of the turtle:in search of the earth's last dinosaur.

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