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 ...

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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 ...

Carleton University’s Grégory Bulté has been studying the northern map turtles of Opinicon Lake since 2003.

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 ...

With its distinctively patterned shell, the map turtle (Graptemys geographica) resembles a small work of art by nature. However, those interested in keeping this North American aquatic turtle must ...

JACKSON, Miss.— In response to a 2010 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule today protecting the Pearl River map turtle as ...

Jessica Robichaud received funding from Carleton University, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund Small ...