Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

TYLERTOWN, Miss. — On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern Mississippi, Noah Devros dives into the murky water with a flashlight and ...

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 Pearl River map turtle has been designated a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Cris Hagen, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory/Courtesy of U.S.