That looks like it might be a baby stinkpot (S. Odoratus)! They're a kind of mud turtle, so marshes are their happy place.
Baby snappers have long tails, but it could also be one of those that lost its tail.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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If that's what it is, that's extra awesome! My grandma used to call me stinkpot (affectionately).
Oh and this one had his tail pulled in. I saw a little of it before he did so, and I was waiting to see if he'd redeploy it to judge if it was a snapper. His little claws and pointier nose made me lean that way. I had to usher a HUGE snapping turtle out of the road last week. He fortunately had just woken up from hibernation and was still groggy, so he wasn't trying to take my hand off.