Michigan is home to nine different types of turtles including the Blanding's turtle, eastern box turtle, spotted turtle, wood turtle, painted turtle, red-eared slider turtle, common musk turtle ...

It’s a cold-blooded animal that gains energy through absorbing it from the sun like a solar panel. Its sex life ranges from odd-but-gentlemanly courtship to brutish attacks and forced mating.

Turtle hatchlings gathered from the path of Consumers Energy’s Mid-Michigan Pipeline Project. (Photo/Consumers Energy). That summer, HRM rescued and incubated Eastern Snapping, Midland Painted ...

Now it appears that Lake Michigan painted and snapping turtles could be a useful source for measuring the resulting pollution, according to researchers. Decades of unregulated industrial waste ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Hailey O’Malley still enjoys the discoveries of the natural world, such as this western painted turtle in ... in southern Lake Michigan is so variable ...