This is the hair-raising moment a fiery turtle snaps back at a girl who thought she was petting a cute tortoise. She stumbled upon the scaly animal on a road at a Canadian wildlife reserve and decided ...

On a sunny afternoon in late July, I spotted this turtle walking slowly across a grassy pond levee. This is a native water turtle called the common snapping turtle. It is our second-largest snapping ...

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 ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

A rare prehistoric-looking turtle has turned up on a beach in Siberia - more than 6,000 miles away from its normal home in the American south. With rough skin, sharp claws, and spiky ridges down its ...

Oklahoma angler Dave Harrell was hoping to catch some catfish in Eufaula Lake Monday - but instead he nabbed a prehistoric-looking turtle likely tipping the scales at 100lbs. Harrell released his ...