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 ...

Graceful, ancient, and endlessly fascinating, sea turtles have glided through the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. They’ve witnessed the rise and fall of dinosaurs, crossed entire ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Pearl River map turtle sits on the beach along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern Mississippi in ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an ...