Claim to fame: Northern map turtles were formerly known as “common map turtles,” but biologists have recommended the name change because the former name might mislead people into thinking these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grégory Bulté, an Ottawa-area biologist, holds a map turtle shell that shows the distinctive 'map' pattern that gives the turtle ...

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 ...

Aquatic turtles are fun pets to own and watch, but not everyone wants a turtle that grows very big. Mississippi map turtles don't grow quite as large as some other species like sliders and cooters, ...