Dec 11, 2025
Shirleen’s Epic Ocean Journey. (Center For Biological Diversity)
Description from the Center For Biological Diversity:
Meet Shirleen, a 900-pound leatherback sea turtle — and a very experienced traveler.
Thanks to satellite tracking by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center, we now know more about where she and other sea turtles roam. Endangered leatherbacks are threatened by vessel strikes, loss of nesting-beach habitat, changing ocean conditions, and deadly fishing gear. But that didn’t stop Shirleen from swimming almost 58,000 miles in 907 days.
