Tag: Blanding’s turtles

When a new natural gas pipeline was being built north of Detroit in 2020, wildlife workers moved affected reptiles and amphibians and their eggs out of the way — particularly...

In northern Indiana, spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) face a number of human-caused threats. While habitat fragmentation, habitat loss and degradation, road mortality and even poaching...

Researchers knew that Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) hatchlings travel in a straight line toward dark horizons, but they didn’t know how they navigated. Some turtles, such as loggerhead sea turtles...