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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each spring, biologist Grégory Bulté catches turtles that have spent the winter hibernating under the frozen surface of Ontario’s ...

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 ...

With their leathery, pliant shells, Eastern spiny softshell turtles — the only species of softshell turtles found in New England — are especially vulnerable to predators. Since 1987, they’ve been ...

Hartford, CT -- Two activities – harvesting turtles for food and riverside development – in Southern Missouri sharply reduced the number of northern map turtles in one river. When that happened, a ...

Malcolm Fenech spent the last few months collecting turtle eggs at Petrie Island to save them from getting eaten by predators. Now, he's incubating them at the Ottawa Riverkeeper's offices. (Hallie ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising culprit, and are left concerned for the future.