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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.

My first sighting of a snapping turtle this spring seemed an auspicious start to turtle season. Some teenage boys had pulled their car to the side of the road, warning lights flashing, and were out ...

Baby snapping turtles have surprisingly long necks, and this video gives a close-up look at how they stretch, move, and react ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...