ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle as ...

A small alligator snapping turtle pulled from a lake in Cumbia has been nicknamed Fluffy. A dog walker found the exotic creature, which is native to swamps and rivers in southern parts of the US ...

The Big Creek crayfish and St. Francis River crayfish are ... They are also threatened by heavy-metal contamination of its streams caused by mining. Alligator snapping turtle. Garry Tucker/USFWS.

A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a northwestern English pond called Urswick Tarn, about 5,000 miles from its native habitat in the South.