Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rio Grande cooter can't catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Rio Grande in Texas. WASHINGTON (CN) — An environmental advocacy group sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday over its decision not to place an at-risk southwestern freshwater turtle on ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for denying Endangered Species Act protections to the Rio Grande cooter. These shy freshwater turtles have a ...

You might say it's two-headed turtles all the way down. At least that's what the Internet is hot for this week, after a tiny Texas River Cooter, has turned heads by sporting two of its own—heads, that ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — A very large turtle was released into the wild after rehabilitating at The Turtle Hospital in Florida. The animal, who rescuers named Cooter B, was entangled in a crab trap in August ...

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...