Aaron Koelker’s map of map turtles is one of our favorite examples of how shape can influence and enhance a map. For our next Behind the Map, we spoke with Koelker, a member of the Geospatial Services ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and ...

Since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have marveled at sea turtles' impressive ability to make their way--often over thousands of kilometers--through the open ocean and back to the very places ...