Michigan Painted Turtle Size:20" x 30" photographed by Edward Curtis in

photographed by Edward Curtis in 1905

and Minook Motschman

Photo taken by Bain News Service on 5x7 glass plate negative

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Michigan Painted Turtle Size:20" x 30" photographed by Edward Curtis inThe painted turtle is the most widespread native turtle of North America, and the official state reptile of Michigan. It lives in slow moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Four regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the last ice age. Print Collection has