While I see a quite a few massasauga rattlesnakes every year, I have still yet to see a melanistic one.  Melanism is a genetic trait that ca...

I have been trying to update some of the features of Buckeye Herps and Wolverine Herps which have gone neglected for a couple years.  I also...

The next day I made a trip a little farther away to try and locate a species that had thus far eluded me in Michigan - the spotted turtle. ...

The last couple days have been hotter then hades up here in SE Michigan and today was no exception. I spent the previous night working, whi...

and the process of writing about them... I have never been an enthusiastic writer, but I have always enjoyed reading. It is this sense of jo...