A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the Pearl ...

Grégory Bulté, an Ottawa-area biologist, holds a map turtle shell that shows the distinctive 'map' pattern that gives the turtle its name. (Dan Taekema/CBC - image credit) The northern map turtle is ...

Northern Map Turtles, Graptemys geographica, are a long-lived riverine species of conservation concern. We examined carapace morphology of Northern Map Turtles at Mount Union, a major turtle nesting ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...