The red-eared slider and the painted turtle are both fascinating turtles which are popular pets around the world, with the painted turtle being second in popularity only to the red-eared slider. If ...

There are four kinds of North American painted turtles (the eastern, midland, southern and western). My photo here is of a southern painted turtle. It is the only North American painted turtle to ...

She was an Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), this much was easily known. They’re fairly common around low, wet areas in southern Maine up through the Midcoast, and inland to about the ...

Painted turtles, Chrysemys picta ... Today, four subspecies are recognized: eastern; midland; southern; and western. The western subspecies is west of the Mississippi in the Great Plains and ...

While painted turtles are a native species ... The shell is green and black and tends to get darker with age. Native to the southern Midwest from Texas north to southern Ohio and West Virginia ...

The amazingly adaptable painted turtle (in several subspecies) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It ranges in freshwaters from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and from the ...

Ken “Husker” O’Malley proudly emailed this photo of his daughter with a western painted turtle from a northern ... A: Because perch fishing in southern Lake Michigan is so variable, very ...

Biologists have been trapping turtles in southern areas of New Hampshire this ... spotted turtles are threatened and the snapping turtle, the painted turtle and the common musk turtle are ...