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, ...

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A Rio Grande cooter (Pseudemys Gorzugi) swimming in its namesake river. (Photo by RKO) Conservation group Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit against the Trump administration for failing to ...

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 ...