This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

The Rio Grande cooter can't catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and ...

Conservation group sues the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over lack of protection for the Rio Grande cooter, a turtle.

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

The Rio Grande cooter can’t catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and ...