Herpetologist Paul Crump, who oversees reptile conservation projects for TPWD, says the turtles' ability to remember and ...

The giant turtle ... fishing for a new world-record alligator gar at the upper end of Sam Rayburn Lake in East Texas. Weston and Kirkland accomplished their mission, and in the process, they caught ...

Snapping turtles roamed the Earth, albeit slowly, millions of years before dinosaurs. They can live 75 or more years, and the biggest one caught in the wild weighed 68 pounds. Historians speculate ...

Being the largest freshwater snapping turtles in the world, alligator snapping turtles are a lot bigger than the common snapping turtles you might spot throughout Florida’s lakes, ponds ...

Fun fact: The largest common snapping turtle in the world is Big Snap Daddy, a 98-pounder with an objectively cooler name ...

Read Next: Fisherman Catches Gigantic 200-Pound Snapping Turtle, Then Lands World Record Gar Common freshwater snapping turtles are found throughout the eastern U.S., as well as in Canada. In U.S.

The common snapping turtle is known by the scientific name ... and as far north as Iowa. It is the world’s largest freshwater turtle. Males typically weigh between 155 and 175 pounds.

The turtles are also easy prey for hunters that feed thriving world markets for the exhibition and consumption of the turtles. Early in the 20th century alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in ...