A puppy found in a snapping turtle’s jaw made it to safety in Alabama. 2nd Chance Shelter A snapping turtle pulled a “terrified” puppy into an Alabama creek as a man raced to help, a shelter said. The ...

Alligator snapping turtles are the biggest freshwater turtle in North America, sporting jagged, pointy shells, and a hooked beak. But these prehistoric-looking creatures haven't been seen in Kansas ...

Alligator snapping turtles, like the one seen in this file photo, were classified as endangered in Kansas in 1974. The state has begun a reintroduction program to bring the creatures back to Kansas ...

Turtles aren’t known for their speed. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. (Slow and steady wins the race and all that.) But one type of turtle is actually incredibly quick, at least with its ...

A record number of clutches of white-throated snapping turtles have been found along the Burnett River in Queensland's ...

Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

RICE TWP. – Although the snapping turtle that Rick Koval and I caught wasn’t an enormous monster, it was a sign of things to come. The small snapper had a head and feet that seemed far too large for ...

The famed snapping turtle, dubbed “Chonkosaurus” by internet commentators when pictures of her basking on a Chicago River pylon first went viral in summer 2023, reappeared earlier this week. The ...

The post, titled "Well this was a surprise," featured a couple of photos of the turtle that they affectionately called a ...

It’s the largest freshwater turtle in North America and one that looks downright prehistoric. But this “dinosaur” of a turtle, as it’s often called, which only lives in the Suwannee River basin of ...

Waterfront landowners eventually discover that snapping turtles, beavers, and other aquatic pests are not just background ...