Federal wildlife managers are proposing endangered species protections for a rare freshwater turtle found only in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday that ...

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- On Christmas morning 2019, our daughter, Sarah, came downstairs to find that Santa had left a turtle care kit under the tree. Two weeks later, a Mississippi map turtle joined ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS—As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to decide on Endangered Species Act protection for ...

NEW ORLEANS— As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect Pearl River map turtles as a threatened ...

A freshwater turtle found only in Louisiana and Mississippi isn’t getting the protections it needs to avoid extinction, according to a lawsuit the Center for Biological Diversity plans to file against ...