What do leatherback turtle eat?

Answer 1

jellyfish

Leatherback turtles eats jellyfish which means they are carnivores.

they eat mainly jellyfish and other soft bodied creatures.
they eat jellyfish and some other easily fish to eat .
jelly fish
jellyfish

It eats herbs in the water and soft bodied sea creatures like jelly fish (aka sea jelly) It's favorite food!
an adult leatherback sea turtles diet consists almost entirely of jellyfish.
They eat Jellyfish.
Leatherback sea turtles eat jellyfish and other soft bodied animals, such as slaps (free-floating tunicates) and cone jellies (Ctenophores).

These animals are an energy-poor food since they are mostly water; therefore the leatherbacks must eat a lot of them. Leatherbacks in captivity can eat twice their own body weight in jellies a day. To help them swallow the soft prey the leatherback's oral cavity is lined with spines that stiffly point backwards.

*Garbage pollution is very dangerous for turtles because some items, especially plastic shopping bags, look like jellyfish when in the water. Turtles try to eat the garbage and can become gaged and die.
The primary food of the leatherback sea turtle is a jellyfish. They will also eat squid, sea urchins, fish, mollusks and other marine creatures. They have a more specialized diet than other sea turtles.
jellyfish
The Leatherback Turtle adult eats almost only jellyfish, even though they do eat other "soft-bodied" sea organisms when they are pushed, like the tunicates, and cephalopods, or squid. For more details, see the sites listed below.