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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in favor of protecting the Pearl River map turtle under the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday. The decision puts a bump in the road for a potential dam, part ...

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 ...