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 ...

NEW ORLEANS— As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect Pearl River map turtles as a threatened ...

The Pearl River map turtle and four other similar turtles found in the South are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Fish and Wildlife Service extended Endangered Species ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in favor of protecting the Pearl River map turtle under the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday. The decision puts a bump in the road for a potential dam, part ...

TYLERTOWN, Miss. — On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern Mississippi, Noah Devros dives into the murky water with a flashlight and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Pearl River map turtle sits on a fallen branch that is partially submerged in water. The Pearl River map turtle has been ...

Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

Every winter, northern map turtles cluster together to hibernate in the water beneath a frozen lake. Then one year, their ...