The largest snapping turtle ever recorded in the state was caught last month in the James River, according to the Virginia ...

The alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle in the world ... They're apex predators, they hang out on river bottoms, with their mouth open, moving part of their tongue like ...

The release of the 40 turtles in the Neosho River in September was KDWP ... In Kansas, the largest alligator snapping turtle recorded was 138 pounds. “You know, further south when you get ...

A homeowner in suburban Virginia found a 48.6-pound common snapping turtle in his yard ... the nonprofit center posted. The grumpy turtle was the largest the center had examined in five years ...

The Trump administration's proposal to change the definition of the word “harm” in the Endangered Species Act could bring ...

The massive snapping turtle was caught on camera by botanist Joey Santore as it lorded over a Chicago River pylon Saturday. In a widely shared video, the turtle suns itself as its fat, leathery ...

Only the snapping turtle and the painted turtle are really common across New York. Snappers are the largest New York freshwater turtle ... from pristine Adirondack lakes, large rivers, and marshes to ...

Alligator snapping turtles are enormous, prehistoric-looking reptiles that can grow to 200 pounds and can live almost 100 years. These slow-moving, largely sedentary behemoths spend so much of their ...

Early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in river systems draining into the Gulf of Mexico, from the waterways and lakes of the Midwest to the swamps and bayous of Florida, ...