<p>A bathtub-size female lazes through warm shallows near Indonesia's Kai Islands; remoras hitch a ride.</p>
A bathtub-size female lazes through warm shallows near Indonesia's Kai Islands; remoras hitch a ride.
Ancient Mariner
The biggest, deepest-diving, widest-ranging of all turtles, the leatherback has endured for 100 million years.
This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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