Leatherbacks are giants. They can grow as long as a small car and weigh more than a grand piano, yet they glide gracefully through the sea. They are powerful swimmers that travel thousands of kilometres across whole oceans, diving deeper than almost any other animal that breathes air.
Their favourite food is jellyfish, which they slurp up with special spiky throats. Female leatherbacks come ashore on Suriname's beaches, like Galibi, to dig nests and lay their eggs in the warm sand, then return to their ocean travels.
Leatherbacks have been swimming in our seas since the time of the dinosaurs. Today people protect their nesting beaches and keep the oceans cleaner, for example by using fewer plastic bags, which turtles can mistake for jellyfish.