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Michigan’s bald eagles are among the most contaminated birds on the planet when it comes to phased-out flame retardant chemicals in their livers, according to new research.
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved an emergency rule that reduces the daily limit of trout in the Apostle Islands region of Lake Superior.
Researchers found that shrews account for 38.6 percent and deer account for 30 percent of the prey detected in marten scat collected in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
The population of the invasive faucet snail is expanding in the Great Lakes.
Cold weather meant they hatched late and migrated early, but tagged birds show strong survival.
Ohio scientists say they’ve found evidence that the insect has made its way to a new host: the white fringetree.
A team of students and researchers at the University of Michigan has created an app that is a pocket guide for Great Lakes animal species at the region’s parks, museums and zoos.
Maritime archeologists are swapping shipwreck surveys for trout habitat mapping in Lake Huron’s Sixth Fathom Bank, an ancestral spawning ground for lake trout.
A fight over logging restrictions is delaying federal protection of the northern long-eared bat, a Great Lakes species already decimated in the American Northeast.
Unlike Sharknadoes, the tiny crustacean poses a real threat, especially in the Great Lakes.