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 ...

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...

Imagine it’s winter, and you’re standing on a frozen lake or pond, when suddenly below your feet you notice hundreds of turtles. What are they doing down there below the ice? Freshwater turtles in ...

I took this photo while kayaking a section of the Susquehanna River near the Norman Wood Bridge in Martic Township on May 7, 2023. The northern map turtle (Graptemys geographica), also known as the ...

Researchers studying river turtles in Missouri found populations of the northern map turtle have not recovered from harvesting in the 1970s. University of Florida researchers studying river turtles in ...

Students from Rensselaer Junior Senior High School are learning about northern map turtles at the BASF wildlife habitat site on Hudson River. Students joined Molly Borst, BASF science education ...

In this episode of A Moment in the Wild, Purdue extension wildlife technician Zach Truelock introduces you to the northern map turtle. This species is named for the fact that its shell resembles a ...