With their leathery, pliant shells, Eastern spiny softshell turtles — the only species of softshell turtles found in New England — are especially vulnerable to predators. Since 1987, they’ve been ...

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 ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising culprit, and are left concerned for the future. A female northern map turtle ...

Two activities—harvesting turtles for food and riverside development—in Southern Missouri sharply reduced the number of northern map turtles in one river. When that happened, a longtime competitor ...

Hartford, CT -- Two activities – harvesting turtles for food and riverside development – in Southern Missouri sharply reduced the number of northern map turtles in one river. When that happened, a ...

Jessica Robichaud received funding from Carleton University, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund Small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grégory Bulté has been researching map turtles at Opinicon Lake since 2003. Northern map turtles are considered a Species of ...

Some of the research presented in this article was funded by a Species at Risk Grant from Parks Canada and NSERC. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton ...

Malcolm Fenech spent the last few months collecting turtle eggs at Petrie Island to save them from getting eaten by predators. Now, he's incubating them at the Ottawa Riverkeeper's offices. (Hallie ...