Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

142 dead turtles. Smashed shells. A 20-year researcher had never seen anything like it - until now.

Every winter, northern map turtles cluster together to hibernate in the water beneath a frozen lake. Then one year, their ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each spring, biologist Grégory Bulté catches turtles that have spent the winter hibernating under the frozen surface of Ontario’s ...

I took this photo while kayaking a section of the Susquehanna River near the Norman Wood Bridge in Martic Township on May 7, 2023. The northern map turtle (Graptemys geographica), also known as the ...