Map turtles serve as indicators of river health; poor water quality can devastate their populations. In addition to habitat loss and degradation from dams, floodplain clearing and river channelization ...

The Barbour's map turtle is one of the rarest of map turtles, found only in the Apalachicola River system and nearby systems of Florida, Georgia and Alabama in the southeastern United States, where ...

The drop in water temperature was so significant that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports more than 1,000 sea turtles were rescued off the state's coast after being cold-stunned ...

Maps of the zones can be found on their ... According to FWC, cold-stunned sea turtles could be seen floating in the water or near shore. The sea turtle can appear dead, but they are often still ...